the scientific study of sound perception.
For questions about how humans psychologically and physiologically respond to sound (in general) and music (in particular for this site).
Questions tagged [psychoacoustics]
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What's the shortest that a note can be and still have a recognisable pitch?
While talking about this question:
What does it mean to play a note for half a second?
I got to thinking - how short can a note actually be for us to perceive its fundamental pitch?
Obviously real world notes often fade in at the start or have…
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Is it learned or innate our reaction of happiness or sadness in music?
Are we born with the response telling us that the chord tones or melody has a sad or happy quality? Or is it learned by our culture?
The minor scale and chords have a serious or sadness to them while the major scale and chords are brighter or…
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Identifying a contrasting pair of musical memory trait
Trait-1:
My mother, a non-professional music teacher of Indian-classic (North indian) Vocal-music and Nazrul's songs. She is good in her stream (in my opinion), she had a strong interest for indian classic; and was selected to get private-lessons…
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Question on critical-band and critical-band rate usage
If I take a note with frequency 101 Hz (roughly G2), then the critical bandwidth (CB) will be made up of 51 Hz on the low end and 151 Hz on the high end. This means that if I play a D3 with frequency of 152, it will fall outside the G2's CB and…
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Can a pitch be perceived outside the range where it can be heard?
In an example on the wikipedia section on Binaural Beats it says that two sine waves heard as separate signals, one in each ear, which differ by 10 Hz will produce the perception of a 10 Hz difference tone.
Is that possible? I had always heard the…
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Psychology experiment using sounds of alternating notes
Many years ago, I remember hearing of a psychology experiment where participants were asked to listen to two sounds and choose which one was higher or lower.
The two sounds were a mix of pure tones. If we number the standard notes numerically, then…
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