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Direct linkWarrier, Catherine M.; Zatorre, Robert J. – Brain, 2004
Pitch constancy, perceiving the same pitch from tones with differing spectral shapes, requires one to extract the fundamental frequency from two sets of harmonics and compare them. We previously showed this difficult task to be easier when tonal context is present, presumably because the context creates a tonal reference point from which to judge…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cues, Intonation
