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Complex pitch perception mechanisms are shared by humans and a New World monkey

Complex pitch perception mechanisms are shared by humans and a New World monkey

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Complex pitch perception mechanisms are shared by humans and a New World monkey

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Complex pitch perception mechanisms are shared by humans and a New World monkey

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2016-01, Vol.113 (3), p.781-786

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English

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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The perception of the pitch of harmonic complex sounds is a crucial function of human audition, especially in music and speech processing. Whether the underlying mechanisms of pitch perception are unique to humans, however, is unknown. Based on estimates of frequency resolution at the level of the auditory periphery, psychoacoustic studies in human...

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Complex pitch perception mechanisms are shared by humans and a New World monkey

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TN_cdi_jstor_primary_26467463

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_jstor_primary_26467463

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1516120113

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