A note about insensitivity to pitch-change direction.

Samuel R. Mathias, Peter J. Bailey, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2011-10-01; 130(4): EL129-EL134
DOI: 10.1121/1.3629139

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1. J Acoust Soc Am. 2011 Oct;130(4):EL129-34. doi: 10.1121/1.3629139.

A note about insensitivity to pitch-change direction.

Mathias SR(1), Bailey PJ, Semal C, Demany L.

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(1)Department of Psychology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom.

Some listeners are insensitive to the direction of pure-tone frequency changes
when the standard frequency is roved widely over trials, but less so when the
standard frequency is fixed and trial-by-trial feedback is provided. The present
experiment tested the hypothesis that fixing the standard frequency and providing
feedback is advantageous for direction-impaired listeners because under these
conditions the listeners can learn to respond correctly without genuinely
perceiving frequency-change direction. This hypothesis was ruled out by the
experiment. It appears instead that direction-impaired listeners find it
difficult to ignore the irrelevant frequency changes introduced by roving.

© 2011 Acoustical Society of America

DOI: 10.1121/1.3629139
PMID: 21974481 [Indexed for MEDLINE]

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