Pitch (psychophysics)

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To a good approximation the perceived pitch of a sine wave is directly related to the frequency of the sound.

More complex sounds can also have pitch, notably speech and musical notes. Most such sounds have a spectrum that is (approximately) a stack of harmonics. In speech, the lowest harmonic in the stack is called the fundamental frequency, and is strongly correlated with the perceived pitch.

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