title: Pitch perception.
abstract: This article is a review of the psychophysical study of pitch perception. The history of the study of pitch has seen a continual competition between spectral and temporal theories of pitch perception. The pitch of complex stimuli is likely based on the temporal regularities in a sound's waveform, with the strongest pitches occurring for stimuli with low-frequency components. Thus, temporal models, especially those based on autocorrelation-like processes, appear to account for the majority of the data.
authors.affiliation: Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 870102, Tempe, AZ 85287-0102, USA. william.yost@asu.edu
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Yost
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010898:Pitch Perception; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013998:Time Perception