Periodic noise

The stimulus was first described by Guttman & Julesz (1963). It served for numerous psychophysical studies. Its bearing is switching between periodicity detection (“infrapitch”, e.g. Warren&Bashford 1981) and echoic memory (e.g. Cowan 1984).

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• Cowan, N., (1984). On short and long auditory stores. Psychol. Bull. 96, 341-370.
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• Kaernbach, C., Schröger, E., and Gunter, T.C. (1998). Human event-related brain potentials to auditory periodic noise stimuli. Neurosci. Lett. 242, 17-20.
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• Patterson, R.D., Milroy, R., and Lutfi, R.A. (1983). Detecting a repeated tone burst in repeated noise. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 73, 951-954.
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• Pollack, I. (1990). Detection and discrimination thresholds for auditory periodicity. Percept. Psychophys. 47, 105-111.
• Warren, R.M. (1982). Auditory perception, A new synthesis. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
• Warren, R.M., and Bashford, J.A. Jr., (1981). Perception of acoustic iterance: Pitch and infrapitch. Percept. Psychophys. 29, 395-402.
• Warren, R.M., and Bashford, J.A., Jr. (1993). When acoustic sequences are not perceptual sequences: The global perception of auditory patterns. Percept. Psychophys. 54, 121-126.
• Warren, R.M., and Wrightson, J.M. (1981). Stimuli producing conflicting temporal and spectral cues to frequency. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 70, 1020-1024.
• Warren, R.M., Wrightson, J.M., and Puretz, J. (1988). Illusory continuity of tonal and infratonal periodic sounds. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 84, 1338-1342.
• Warren, R.M., Bashford, J.A., Cooley, J.M. and Brubaker, B.S. (2001). Detection of acoustic repetition for very long stochastic patterns, Percept. Psychophys. 63, 175-182.