Evidence that argues that temporal coding must play a role
Burns & Viemeister (1982): Can listeners identify melodies played with sinusoidally amplitude modulated noise?
YES.
(From Yost
(1994)
A sinusoidallyamplitude modulated noise does not
createa spectral ÒpatternÓ; it
elicits about the same activity over the whole basilar membrane. But we know
that auditory nerve fibers will phase-lock to the amplitude modulation. But
SAM noise has a pitch that corresponds to the rate of amplitude modulation
that is strong enough that people can identify melodies played with SAM
noise.
