Pitch perception: A dynamical-systems perspective
From MaRDI portal
Abstract: Two and a half millennia ago Pythagoras initiated the scientific study of the pitch of sounds; yet our understanding of the mechanisms of pitch perception remains incomplete. Physical models of pitch perception try to explain from elementary principles why certain physical characteristics of the stimulus lead to particular pitch sensations. There are two broad categories of pitch-perception models: place or spectral models consider that pitch is mainly related to the Fourier spectrum of the stimulus, whereas for periodicity or temporal models its characteristics in the time domain are more important. Current models from either class are usually computationally intensive, implementing a series of steps more or less supported by auditory physiology. However, the brain has to analyse and react in real time to an enormous amount of information from the ear and other senses. How is all this information efficiently represented and processed in the nervous system? A proposal of nonlinear and complex systems research is that dynamical attractors may form the basis of neural information processing. Because the auditory system is a complex and highly nonlinear dynamical system it is natural to suppose that dynamical attractors may carry perceptual and functional meaning. Here we show that this idea, scarcely developed in current pitch models, can be successfully applied to pitch perception.
Recommendations
- Nonlinear dynamics, the missing fundamental, and harmony
- A model of perceptual segregation based on clustering the time series of the simulated auditory nerve firing probability
- Calculating tonal fusion by the generalized coincidence function
- Modeling complex tone perception: grouping harmonics with combination-sensitive neurons
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 802788
Cited in
(7)- A SIR forced model with interplays with the external world and periodic internal contact interplays
- Musical tonality, neural resonance and Hebbian learning
- The validity of bootstrap testing for threshold autoregression
- Dynamical systems, celestial mechanics, and music: Pythagoras revisited
- Calculating tonal fusion by the generalized coincidence function
- Nonlinear dynamics, the missing fundamental, and harmony
- Modeling complex tone perception: grouping harmonics with combination-sensitive neurons
This page was built for publication: Pitch perception: A dynamical-systems perspective
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2717795)
