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The salience of enhanced components within inharmonic complexes

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: A subjective listening task was used to measure the salience of enhanced components using typical intensity-enhancement stimuli, time-reversed versions of those stimuli, and stimuli which contained a frequency shift of the target component. Twenty-five listeners judged whether or not a pitch "stood out" within an inharmonic complex. For comparison, judgments also were made for stimuli with a single segment that consisted of a simultaneously masked target. The results indicate that the perceived salience of enhanced components is greater than might be predicted by the effective magnitude of those components, and that informational masking is likely involved.

Source: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

DOI: 10.1121/1.4820897

Authors: Andrew J. Byrne, Mark A. Stellmack, Neal F. Viemeister

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: English

Topic: Neuroscience and Music Perception

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Award: Intensity Coding and Dynamic Processes in Hearing