To perceive and produce music accurately, the brain must represent, categorize, plan, and execute pitched information in response to environmental stimuli. Convergent methods from psychophysics, voxel-based morphometry, and diffusion tensor imaging with normal and tone-deaf (TD) subjects have shown that neural networks controlling pitch perception and production systems include bilateral fronto...

The effects of hearing impairment on the perception of binaural-pitch stimuli were investigated. Several experiments were performed with normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners, including detection and discrimination of binaural pitch, and melody recognition using different types of binaural pitches. For the normal-hearing listeners, all types of binaural pitches could be perceived immedi...

A model of pitch perception is presented involving an array of delay lines and inhibitory gating neurons. In response to a periodic sound, a minimum appears in the pattern of outputs of the inhibitory neurons at a lag equal to the period of the sound. The position of this minimum is the cue to pitch. The model is similar to the autocorrelation model of pitch, multiplication being replaced by an...

We have designed and tested an integrated circuit that models human pitch perception. The chip receives as input a time-varying voltage corresponding to sound pressure at the ear and produces as output a map of perceived pitch. The chip is a physiological model; subcircuits on the chip correspond to known and proposed structures in the auditory system. Chip output approximates human performance...

Abstract: Communicating in tone language involves the use of lexical tone as a cue to determine the meaning of words. Lexical tones are defined both by their pitch height and also by their pitch contours. Given the height component, it has been hypothesized that experience in acquiring a tone language influences the development of a mental template that is used both for speech communication and...

OBJECTIVE The perception of pitch has recently gained attention. At present, clinical audiologic tests to assess this are hardly available. This article reports on the development of a clinical test using harmonic intonation (HI) and disharmonic intonation (DI). STUDY DESIGN Prospective collection of normative data and pilot study in hearing-impaired subjects. SETTING Tertiary referral cent...

Pitch plays a critical role in the perception of speech prosody, melody of music, and in organizing the acoustic environment into different sources. Like timbre, pitch refers to many distinct percepts with a host of confusing terms. They include “spectral pitch” evoked by sinusoidal signals, “residue pitch” associated with unresolved (high) harmonics, very slow click trains, and envelope of amp...

Pitch is often referred to as a primary parameter in music, a basic concept upon which other musical categories, such as pitch intervals and harmony, can be built (Snyder, 2000). While ANSI defines pitch primarily on a uni-dimensional space, Shepard (1982) postulated a multi-dimensional spatial model, such that the Euclidean distances between the musical tones (in the Western Tonal Tradition) r...

Perceived pitch differences between high vs. low vowels with identical F0 have been reported in the literature. On the speech production side, in German a specific phenomenon is found: Tense and lax vowels differ in their tongue height but tend to have a similar F0. On the speech perception side, our aim was to test whether German listeners judge the tongue height or real F0 of tense and lax vo...