Frequency ratios and the discrimination of pure tone sequences
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- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Perception & Psychophysics
- Vol. 56 (4) , 472-478
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03206738
Abstract
We examined the effect of frequency ratios on the discrimination of patterns of alternating pure tones (ABABA). Listeners heard a repeating pattern presented in transposition (same frequency ratios between successive tones, different absolute frequencies) and were required to indicate when the pattern changed (different frequency ratios and absolute frequencies). Changes from patterns with simple frequency ratios to those with more complex ratios were more readily detected than were changes from complex ratios to simpler ratios.Keywords
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