Copyright © 2013 International Anesthesia Research Society PERSPECTIVE I have committed considerable professional time to anesthesia for neurologic surgery. That commitment has caused me to hear a great deal related to neuroanesthesia. I have been asked by faculty colleagues in anesthesia, “What do you suppose might have gone wrong during that case yesterday?” I have listened to American Board ...

An objective melody task was used to determine the lower limit of melodic pitch (LLMP) for harmonic complex tones. The LLMP was defined operationally as the repetition rate below which listeners could no longer recognize that one of the notes in a four-note, chromatic melody had changed by a semitone. In the first experiment, the stimuli were broadband tones with all their components in cosine ...