The Properties of the Missing Fundamental of Complex Tones

摘要

The existence of the missing fundamental phe nomenon is known, but its mechanism is unknown. We showed how the information of the missing fundamental f_0 explicitly appeared on the aggregated autocorrelogram of the output pulse train for input signal f_1 to one cochlear model and the output pulse train for input signal f_2 to another cochlear model (where f_1=nf_0 and f_2=(n+k)f_0). In practice, we listen to a com plex tone of f_1 and f_2 with each ear. In this paper, we try to investigate the influence of the pitch and the number of har monic components of complex tones on perceiving the missing fundamental.