Abstract
Pitch is the most important auditory perception characteristic of sound with respect to speech intelligibility and music appreciation, and corresponds to a frequency of sound stimulus. However, in some cases, we can perceive virtual pitch, where the corresponding frequency component does not exist in the stimulating sound. This virtual pitch contains a deviation from the de Boer pitch shift formula, which is known as second pitch shift. It has been theoretically suggested that nonlinear dynamics in the cochlea or in the neural network produce a nonlinear resonance with a frequency corresponding to the virtual pitch; however, there is no direct experimental observation to support this theory. The second virtual pitch shift, expressed via basilar membrane nonlinear vibration temporal patterns, and consistent with psychoacoustic experiments, is observed in situ in the cochlea via laser interferometry.
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