A perceptual pitch boundary in a non-human primate

Pitch is an auditory percept critical to the perception of music and speech, and for these harmonic sounds, pitch is closely related to the repetition rate of the acoustic wave. This paper reports a test of the assumption that non-human primates and especially rhesus monkeys perceive the pitch of th...

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Main Authors: Olivier eJoly, Simon eBaumann, Colline ePoirier, Roy Dunbar Patterson, Alexander eThiele, Timothy D Griffiths
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00998/full