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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 autocorrelationlike processes, appear to account for the majority of the data.
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Yost, W.A. Pitch perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 71, 1701–1715 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3758/APP.71.8.1701
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