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    It is not the case that On Helmholtz's and later psychoacoustic accounts, pitch perception is determined by the frequency of pressure waves arriving at the ear, not source vibration frequency.

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    • 1.Pitch perception involves learned contextual inference about source vibration, not mere passive detection of arriving pressure wave properties.
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    • 2.The cochlea converts pressure waves into neural patterns through nonlinear processes; pitch emerges from central neural computation, not wave frequency directly.
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    • 3.Infrasound and ultrasound pressure waves reach the ear but produce no pitch, suggesting frequency alone is insufficient—auditory system filters matter.
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    • 1.Identical pressure wave frequencies produce identical pitch percepts regardless of their physical source, demonstrating frequency is the perceptual determinant.
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    • 2.The ear mechanically responds to pressure wave frequency via cochlear resonance, providing a direct causal pathway from waves to neural pitch coding.
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    • 3.Doppler shifts alter perceived pitch by changing arriving wave frequency while source frequency remains constant, proving perception tracks arriving waves.
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