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Re: neurophysiological studies of the missing fundamental?
>Does anyone know of any neurophysiological studies that have looked at
>the phenomenon of the "missing fundamental"?
Here's some stuff from my database.
Specifically concerning the "missing fundamental", you should look at
Evans (1978, 1983, 1986) and his discussion with Whitfield (1978, 1979,
1980), see also Moore (1980).
Widening the topic a bit, "missing fundamental phenomena" can be
explained if we suppose that the auditory system derives pitch from
the period of discharge of auditory-nerve fibers that do not resolve
individual partials (this period is the inverse of the missing
fundamental), and/or from the shortest common super-period of fibers that
do resolve partials (this common super-period is also the inverse of
the missing fundamental). This idea seems to have been first proposed
by Fletcher (1929, quoted by Schubert 1978). Licklider (1956, 1959, 1962)
proposed a neural processing model to explain how this information could
be extracted from the auditory nerve. Others have elaborated this
model (Lyon 1984, 1986; Moore, 1982; van Noorden 1982; de Cheveigne, 1986;
Lazzaro and Mead, 1989; Slaney 1990; Meddis and Hewitt 1988, 1991).
Evidence for synchrony of discharge, needed by such mechanisms, can
be found in early papers by Rose et al. (1967, 1968, 1969) and Kiang
(1965). See Johnson (1980) for the frequency limits of synchrony.
See Lagner (1981, 1983, 1992), Lagner and Schreiner (1988) and
Schreiner and Lagner (1988) for evidence that might be interpreted
as supporting Licklider's model. There's also lots of evidence for
the related Jeffress model of binaural processing.
Speech has rather little energy at the fundamental. In that sense,
the physiological representation of speech F0 is relevant to your
issue. See Delgutte (1984), Delgutte and Kiang (1984), Javel (1980),
Kim and Leonard (1988), Miller and Sachs (1984), Young and Sachs
(1979), Palmer et al. (1986). You might also look into work on the
representation of the F0s of mixed vowels (Palmer 1988, 1990, 1992;
de Cheveigne 1993; Meddis and Hewitt 1992)
All this is rather biased in favor of time-domain processing and
the Licklider model. Maybe someone else could provide more references
in favor of other models?
I hope this helps,
Alain.
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