scholarly journals Further examination of pitch discrimination interference between complex tones containing resolved harmonics

2009 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 1059-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hedwig E. Gockel ◽  
Robert P. Carlyon ◽  
Christopher J. Plack
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Discrimination ◽  
Complex Tones

scholarly journals Pitch discrimination of components in complex tones with harmonic structures

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 328-334
Author(s):  
Tamotsu Shirado ◽  
Masuzo Yanagida
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Discrimination ◽  
Complex Tones

The role of timbre in pitch matching abilities and pitch discrimination abilities with complex tones

2004 ◽  
Vol 115 (5) ◽  
pp. 2390-2390
Author(s):  
Robert E. Moore ◽  
Christopher R. Watts ◽  
Fawen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Discrimination ◽  
Pitch Matching ◽  
Complex Tones

scholarly journals Pitch discrimination is better for synthetic timbre than natural musical instrument timbres, despite familiarity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Pitch Discrimination ◽  
Natural Sounds ◽  
Physical Acoustics ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Harmonic Complex ◽  
Complex Tones ◽  
Pure Tones ◽  
Equal Amplitude

Pitch discrimination is better for complex tones than for pure tones, but how more subtle differences in timbre affect pitch discrimination is not fully understood. This study compared pitch discrimination thresholds of flat-spectrum harmonic complex tones with those of natural sounds played by musical instruments of three different timbres (violin, trumpet, and flute). To investigate whether natural familiarity with sounds of particular timbres affects pitch discrimination thresholds, this study recruited musicians who were trained on one of the three instruments. We found that flautists and trumpeters could discriminate smaller differences in pitch for artificial flat-spectrum tones, despite their unfamiliar timbre, than for sounds played by musical instruments, which are regularly heard in everyday life (particularly by musicians who play those instruments). Furthermore, thresholds were no better for the instrument a musician was trained to play than for other instruments, suggesting that even extensive experience listening to and producing sounds of particular timbres does not reliably improve pitch discrimination thresholds for those timbres. The results show that timbre familiarity provides minimal improvements to auditory acuity, and physical acoustics (i.e., the presence of equal-amplitude harmonics) determine pitch-discrimination thresholds more than does experience with natural sounds and timbre-specific training.

On the Relationship Between General Auditory Sensitivity and Speech Perception: An Examination of Pitch and Lexical Tone Perception in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-498
Author(s):  
Puisan Wong ◽  
Man Wai Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
Auditory Sensitivity ◽  
Pitch Discrimination ◽  
Lexical Tone ◽  
Perceptual Training ◽  
Lexical Tones ◽  
Tone Perception ◽  
Tone Discrimination

Purpose Theoretical models and substantial research have proposed that general auditory sensitivity is a developmental foundation for speech perception and language acquisition. Nonetheless, controversies exist about the effectiveness of general auditory training in improving speech and language skills. This research investigated the relationships among general auditory sensitivity, phonemic speech perception, and word-level speech perception via the examination of pitch and lexical tone perception in children. Method Forty-eight typically developing 4- to 6-year-old Cantonese-speaking children were tested on the discrimination of the pitch patterns of lexical tones in synthetic stimuli, discrimination of naturally produced lexical tones, and identification of lexical tone in familiar words. Results The findings revealed that accurate lexical tone discrimination and identification did not necessarily entail the accurate discrimination of nonlinguistic stimuli that followed the pitch levels and pitch shapes of lexical tones. Although pitch discrimination and tone discrimination abilities were strongly correlated, accuracy in pitch discrimination was lower than that in tone discrimination, and nonspeech pitch discrimination ability did not precede linguistic tone discrimination in the developmental trajectory. Conclusions Contradicting the theoretical models, the findings of this study suggest that general auditory sensitivity and speech perception may not be causally or hierarchically related. The finding that accuracy in pitch discrimination is lower than that in tone discrimination suggests that comparable nonlinguistic auditory perceptual ability may not be necessary for accurate speech perception and language learning. The results cast doubt on the use of nonlinguistic auditory perceptual training to improve children's speech, language, and literacy abilities.

Pitch discrimination among primary school children.

1967 ◽  
Vol 58 (6, Pt.1) ◽  
pp. 315-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orpha K. Duell ◽  
Richard C. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Pitch Discrimination

Noise‐induced shifts in the pitch of pure and complex tones

1981 ◽  
Vol 69 (S1) ◽  
pp. S119-S119
Author(s):  
Adrianus J. M. Houtsma
Keyword(s):  
Complex Tones
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