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In 1956, Stevens ‘commissioned’ an experiment to equisect a pitch difference between two tones. Results appear to reveal a methodological flaw that would invalidate the Mel Scale (Stevens and Volkmann, 1940). Stevens sought to distinguish sensory continua, e.g., loudness and pitch, on various criteria. He expected that the pitch continuum would not exhibit ‘hysteresis’; i.e., that subjects dividing...
Comparisons of the cochlear maps of various species might be more revealing if the form and parameter values of the functions fitted to the maps were taken into more explicit account. One empirical frequency-position function (Greenwood, 1961), the form of which fits several species, was recently reviewed (Greenwood, 1990). It was shown that mechanical and physiological data from human, cat, guinea...
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