Music in our ears: the biological bases of musical timbre perception.

Timbre is the attribute of sound that allows humans and other animals to distinguish among different sound sources. Studies based on psychophysical judgments of musical timbre, ecological analyses of sound's physical characteristics as well as machine learning approaches have all suggested that...

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Main Authors: Kailash Patil, Daniel Pressnitzer, Shihab Shamma, Mounya Elhilali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3486808?pdf=render