Auditory Perception: Relative Universals for Musical Pitch

Effects of Culture on Musical Pitch Perception

The strong association between music and speech has been supported by recent research focusing on musicians' superior abilities in second language learning and neural encoding of foreign speech sounds. However, evidence for a double association--the influence of linguistic background on music pitch processing and disorders--remains elusive. Because languages differ in their usage of elements (e...

Feature for Musical Pitch Estimation from Simplified Auditory Model

A simplified auditory model has been used for calculating an enhanced summary auto-correlation or ESACF, which can be used as a tool for musical pitch estimation from audio signal. The model itself is not only computationally efficient but its ESACF also shows a good result for single pitch estimation. However, using this ESACF for multiple pitch estimation seems to be very difficult to analyse...

Music perception, pitch, and the auditory system.

The perception of music depends on many culture-specific factors, but is also constrained by properties of the auditory system. This has been best characterized for those aspects of music that involve pitch. Pitch sequences are heard in terms of relative as well as absolute pitch. Pitch combinations give rise to emergent properties not present in the component notes. In this review we discuss t...

Superior time perception for lower musical pitch explains why bass-ranged instruments lay down musical rhythms.

The auditory environment typically contains several sound sources that overlap in time, and the auditory system parses the complex sound wave into streams or voices that represent the various sound sources. Music is also often polyphonic. Interestingly, the main melody (spectral/pitch information) is most often carried by the highest-pitched voice, and the rhythm (temporal foundation) is most o...

Hemispheric asymmetry in the perception of musical pitch structure