Perception of Damped Sine Waves
Rene Capraro, Morris Halle · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1959
This paper discusses the perception of resonant frequency shifts in damped sine waves as a function of the time and magnitude of the shifts. The relation between the perception of the changes in frequency and damping of the wave form is also investigated. The interest in this study stems from the fact that changes in formant frequency (transitions) constitute an important class of cues in speech. The equipment producing the proper stimuli has been built and perceptual tests have been run testing a number of possible hypotheses.