Temporal coding in the auditory system
       

Neural coding of pitch
        Pure tone pitches
        The low pitches of complex tones

Neural coding of timbre (vowels)
        Consonance, dissonance, and roughness
                Sensory roughness
                 Tonal fusion

How far can temporal representations be extended?

• Basic auditory percepts
  • Pitch discrimination
  • High frequency pure tones
  • Loudness (degree of correlated activity)
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• Outline for a temporal basis for music perception
  • Boomsliter & Creel's (1961) proposal
  • Autocorrelation theory of harmony
  • Tonal fusion and competing pitches
  • Common temporal representations for pitch, timbre, rhythm, longer structure
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• Outline for a temporal basis for speech perception