Raising intensity lowers pitch at low frequencies but raises it at high frequencies.
Evidence
Low frequency β as the intensity of a stimulus increased, the pitch of a low-frequency tone (shown as the black, filled circles) decreased. β’ Mid frequency β as the intensity of a stimulus increased, the pitch of a mid-frequency pure tone (e.g., 500β2000 Hz; shown as the unfilled circles)) changed very little. β’ High frequency β as the intensity of a stimulus increased, the pitch of a high-frequency pure tone (shown as the gray, filled circles) increased. β Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normalβ¦, 1252
Categorization
- XREF: This frequency-dependent pitch-intensity interaction echoes the complex direction reversals familiar in auditory psychophysics β comparable to level-dependent loudness growth differences between frequency regions.