On Pitch, the Ear and the Brain of the Beholder. Focus on “Neural Coding of Periodicity in Marmoset Auditory Cortex.”

Abstract

The pitch of a sound is perhaps one of its most salient properties. It is the pitch of sounds that allows us to distinguish and recognize melodies, and the salience of pitch and melody appears to be exploited by a strikingly wide variety of vertebrate life-forms, from song birds to “singing”