Re: human versus spectral resolution

[Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is an excellent and much-overlooked paper on the dfdt uncertainty
(more Gabor than Heisenberg):

Ronken, D. A. (1971). Some effects of bandwidth-duration constraints on
frequency discrimination. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 49, 1232-1242.

Pierre

At 03:03 PM 4/2/2008, you wrote:
> Could anyone please direct me to
> any literature on what are the comparative limits of :
>  
> 1) Time/frequency resolution for digital signal spectral analysis , as
> (sort of) governed by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle with relation to
> the duration, sampling rate, frequency content and bandwidth of the
> sound.
>  
> and 
>  
> 2) The limits of the ability of the human ear to distinquish between
> frequency/pitch and the exact time location of sounds, more or less the
> same task as above.
>