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ATTEMPTS have been made to determine whether pure tones of equal loudness but different pitch are also different in quality, and whether it is possible to find frequency differential thresholds for the quality differences. Following the usual practice, the terms ‘loudness’, ‘pitch’ and ‘quality’ are used to refer specifically to auditory sensations, while ‘intensity’ and ‘frequency’ refer to characteristics of the soundwave stimulus. In this preliminary work, the experimenter was the subject for the comparisons, which were made monaurally with an earphone.
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DENES, P., CARTIER, F. Frequency Differential Thresholds for Quality in Pure Tones. Nature 167, 204 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167204a0
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