frequency theory

frequency theory
an early theory of hearing that postulated that the pattern of excitation of auditory nerve fibers was more important in perception of pitch than was the excitation of fibers in any particular area of the cochlear basilar membrane. Called also Rutherford's t. Cf. place t.

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