Evidence Supporting Tonotopic Interference


  • successfully predicts effect of pitch height

  • successfully predicts effect of timbre

  • may explain the effect of loudness

  • successfully predicts distribution of pitches in musical chords

    (Huron & Sellmer, 1992)


  • successfully predicts distinction between "sounding as one" and "sounding smooth" (Huron, 1991)


  • common scales exhibit optimum sensory consonance (Huron, 1994)