Pitch Discrimination, Mels, and Kock's Contentio
- 1 November 1954
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 26 (6) , 1075-1077
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1907452
Abstract
Recent data on pitch discrimination are shown to agree reasonably well with the values that would be predicted on the assumption that just-noticeable differences for pitch are subjectively equal when measured in mels. The facts relating to diplacusis and the estimation of musical intervals suggest that the difference limen may be expected to vary irregularly with frequency. An argument is made that Kock''s theoretical explanation of pitch discrimination is invalid.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Relation of Pitch to Frequency: A Revised ScaleThe American Journal of Psychology, 1940