The pitch of vibrato tones: a model based on instantaneous frequency decomposition.
We study vibrato as the more ubiquitous manifestation of a nonstationary tone that can evoke a single overall pitch. Some recent results using nonsymmetrical vibrato tones suggest that the perceived pitch could be governed by some stability-sensitive mechanism. For nonstationary sounds the adequate tools are time-frequency representations (TFRs). We show that a recently proposed TFR could be the simplest framework to explain this hypothetical stability-sensitive mechanism. We propose a one-parameter model within this framework that is able to predict previously reported results and we present new results obtained from psychophysical experiments performed in our laboratory.
Mesz
Bruno A
BA
Laboratorio de Acústica y Percepción Sonora, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Eguia
Manuel C
MC
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology*