Localization of pitch in the brain?

[maxwell]

Didier A. Depireux <didier at rai.isr.umd.edu> wrote in message
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> Matt Jones <jonesmat at physiology.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> > As for the biological basis, I don't know exactly, but I'm pretty
sure
> > that certain cell types in cochlear nucleus phase lock to the
missing
> > fundamental.
>
> Wow. I would like to know where you have seen that! I have never
seen such a
> pitch cell reported for reasonable levels of stimulation.
> Didier

http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~eyoung/abEnhanSync.html

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/bionb420.07/jwen/cochlear.htm

http://www.physiology.wisc.edu/rhode/abst.html

http://www.glue.umd.edu/~carr/ARO99-NL.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=96140355&form=
6&db=m&Dopt=b

Just a brief taste...

-maxwell




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