Tone sequences restricted to 100-3200 Hz avoid inaudible pitches in normal hearers
Evidence
Deviant intervals were always four semitones. Since standard pattern intervals were chosen from the set {1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 semitones}, depending on the condition (see Table 1 ), the difference between the standard and the deviant pitch interval was always 1, 2 or 3 semitones. The first tone of the first pattern always had a pitch of 450 Hz. To avoid the use of pitches which may not be clearly audible to everyone despite reporting normal hearing, all pitches were restricted to lie between 100 and 3200 Hz. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5290
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The 100-3200 Hz restriction connects to physical limits of pitch audibility and cochlear mapping across the frequency range.
Related
- Test pitches were limited to 100-3200 Hz for audibility (similarity 0.93)
- Pitch perception experiments restrict stimuli to a clearly audible frequency range. (similarity 0.87)
- Pitch perception differs across listeners despite normal hearing thresholds (similarity 0.87)
- Pitches outside a core audible range can be inaudible even in self-reported normal hearing (similarity 0.86)
- Only about 1,400 discriminable pitches exist across the entire audible range (similarity 0.82)
- Deviant intervals were always four semitones and thus the difference was always 1-3 semitones (similarity 0.82)
- Complex tones above 6 kHz retain musical pitch while pure tones do not. (similarity 0.80)
- Interval patterns are recognized by relative pitch relations, not absolute frequencies (similarity 0.79)
- Randomly generated tone patterns must avoid repeated equidistant intervals to prevent repeated pitches. (similarity 0.79)
- Deviant pitch patterns were detected from the last interval of a six-tone sequence. (similarity 0.79)
- Melodic interval identification degrades once about 9-10 harmonics are removed (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Pitches outside a core audible range can be inaudible even in self-reported normal hearing
#corroborates(0.85) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5298 - About 1,400 audibly distinct pitches exist within the human hearing range
#expands(0.70) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 872