Figure 1: Spectral representations of complex sounds that produce a pitch perception of 62.5 Hz. In this study, we used positron emission tomography (PET) to address the question of where in the ...

In speech and music, complexes of tones are perceived as having a single 'pitch,' a term referring to the subjective highness or lowness of sound. Pitch extraction is crucial in the perception of ...

A team of researchers, including psycholinguist Jutta Mueller from the University of Vienna, has discovered that newborns are capable of learning complex sound sequences that follow language-like ...