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Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, System Name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Fund Type: competitive_research_funding, Overall Grant Amount: - (direct: 3200000, indirect: 960000)
Various phenomena in human pitch perception cannot be explained only using the periodic information of sounds extracted by the auditory peripheral system. In this research, we use the pitch instability enhancement phenomenon as a clue to clarify the possibility that humans utilize an interval unit prediction to compensate for unstable periodic information and perceive pitch. Listening experiments and FFR (Frequency Following Response) measurement experiments were performed. As a result, both experiments suggested that this phenomenon occurs not in the peripheral auditory system but in the higher-order level of auditory processing.