A Possible Explanation


  • Duplex perception of Dissonance?

    • tonotopic component
    • temporal component

  • Recalls Licklider (1951) duplex perception of pitch: place & rate

    two kinds of auditory interference

  • roughness tends to decrease with increasing spectral content, hence might account for decreased dissonance of major-major seventh chord compared with major seventh interval
A problem:

  • why is pleasantness evoked by slow beating?