The Neural Quantum in Discrimination of Pitch and Loudness
John F. Corso · The American Journal of Psychology · 1951
Man's discriminatory ability in audition may be considered from two points of view; first, the ability to perceive the presence or the absence of a given auditory stimulus under specified conditions and secondly, the ability to detect a change in a given auditory stimulus whenever one of its dimensions is increased or decreased. Two explanations have been advanced to account for the behavior observed in measurements of differen-