Abstract
Both music and speech perception rely on hearing out one pitch in the presence of others. Pitch discrimination of narrowband sounds based only on temporal-envelope cues is rendered nearly impossible by introducing interferers in both normal-hearing listeners and cochlear-implant (CI) users. This study tested whether performance improves in normal-hearing listeners if the target is presented over a broad spectral region. The results indicate that performance is still strongly affected by spectrally remote interferers, despite increases in bandwidth, suggesting that envelope-based pitch is unlikely to allow CI users to perceive pitch when multiple harmonic sounds are presented at once.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | EL423-EL428 |
Journal | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |
Volume | 144 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by NIH grant R01 DC005216 (AJO).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Acoustical Society of America.