Psychology / Unit 4 Psych 0432 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Temporal Theory
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The idea
Temporal theory holds that pitch is coded by the rate at which auditory neurons fire in step with the sound wave.
In practice
A two-hundred-hertz tone produces neural firing patterns synchronized to the wave's cycles.
Where people slip
Neurons cannot fire fast enough to track high frequencies. Each theory covers the range the other cannot.
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