Illusory Texture Demos

Here you will find some sound examples demonstrating the phenomenon of "illusory sound texture."

Authors:  Richard McWalter and Josh McDermott
Updated:  2019-11-24
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/textcont.html
Keywords:  sound-texture,  perception,  speech,  music

Inharmonic Pitch perception

Pitch-related music and speech tasks using conventional harmonic sounds and inharmonic sounds whose frequencies lack a common F0.

Authors:  Malinda J. McPherson & Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2017-12-11
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/Diversity_In_Pitch_Perception.html
Keywords:  pitch,  frequency,  music,  speech

Natural Sounds Stimulus Set

The sound set includes 165 natural sounds, each 2-seconds in duration. The sounds were intended to include many of the sounds people commonly hear in their daily life.

Authors:  Sam Norman-Haignere,  Nancy G. Kanwisher,  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2015-11-24
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/svnh/Natural-Sound/Stimuli.html
Keywords:  speech,  music,  stimuli,  frequency,  German,  French,  Italian,  Russian,  Hindi,  Chinese