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THE sensation resulting in the human subject from a change of phase of (180°) occurring in the course of a continuous musical tone has been the subject of a number of earlier publications1. Under certain conditions, the sensation has been found to resemble the beat produced by two pure tones slightly out of unison, and has been described as a ” phase-change beat”2. As stated by Hartridge1, it is demanded by the Helmholtz resonance theory that the physiological event which corresponds to such a phase-change beat must be a transient arrest of the resonant elements of the internal ear brought about by the opposition of the impressed forces following the change of phase to the after-swings enforced by resonance.
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HALLPIKE, C., HARTRIDGE, H. & RAWDON-SMITH, A. Physical Nature of Certain of the Vibrating Elements of the Internal Ear. Nature 138, 839–840 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138839b0
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