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acoustics

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Essay

Circularity in Judgments of Relative Pitch

A 1964 scientific paper by Roger Shepard introducing the auditory illusion now called the Shepard tone.

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Thinker

Roger Shepard

Roger Shepard is an American cognitive psychologist who described the Shepard tone — an auditory illusion of perpetually ascending pitch — in his 1964 paper.

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Institution

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

The premier peer-reviewed publication in acoustics, publishing since 1929.

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