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HST.723J/9.285J - Neural Coding and Perception of Sound

Spring 2009

Pitch and Temporal Coding (Delgutte)

Drawing of an ever rising staircase by M.C. Escher.  To create an auditory analog of this visual illusion, Shepard then Risset synthesized sounds with ever rising pitch.

Pointers to Pitch Papers

Background

  1. Houtsma AJ (1995).  PDF  Pitch perception.  In BCJ Moore (ed),  Hearing.  Academic: London, pp. 267-295.  

  2. De Cheveigné A (2005).  PDF  Pitch perception models.  In CJ Plack, AJ Oxenham (eds), AN Popper, RR Fay, Pitch: Neural Coding and Perception.  Springer: New York.

Psychophysics

  1. Dai H (2000).  PDF Pointers  On the relative importance of individual harmonics in pitch judgments.  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107:953-959.  Delgutte.  Discussed 5/13.

Neural modeling 

  1. Shamma S, Klein D (2000).  PDF Pointers  The case of the missing pitch templates: How harmonic templates emerge in the early auditory system.  J Acoust Soc Am 107:2631-2644.   Delgutte.  Discussed 5/13.

Neurophysiology

  1. Sayles M, Winter IM (2008).  PDF Supplementary data  Reverberation challenges the temporal representation of the pitch of complex sounds.  Neuron 58:789-801. Delgutte. Discussed 5/13.

Further reading

  1. Licklider JCR (1951).  PDF  A duplex theory of pitch perception.  Experientia 7:128-134.  Original formulation of the interspike-interval/autocorrelation model of pitch.  

 

 

2009 Student PowerPoint Presentations

  1. Sayles. PDF

  2. Shamma.  PPT

  3. Dai.  PDF