Different behaviour of quadratic and cubic difference tones.
Level and phase of the cubic and quadratic difference tone were measured as a function of the primary tones' level, frequency separation, frequency region as well as of the frequency of an additional simultaneous masker. The results lead to the conclusion that quadratic and cubic difference tones are produced in different nonlinearities although both result in the same kind of adequate stimulus.
D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D011571:Psychoacoustics