IMPROVING THE DETECTION OF MELODIC SEQUENCES THROUGH THE ADDITION OF INHARMONIC FREQUENCIES

Our ability to detect and discriminate between auditory signals is crucial to our daily lives (Gundy, 1961), and is required in auditory warning systems for a variety of safety critical devices (Stanton & Edworthy, 2019) —such as hospital alarms (Sanderson et al., 2006). Recent research has focused on harmonicity as a salient dimension in signal detection (McPherson et al., 2022). Inharmonic sounds tend to be more attention grabbing (Bonin & …