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Temporal Theory

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Temporal theory holds that pitch is coded by the rate at which auditory neurons fire in step with the sound wave.

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A two-hundred-hertz tone produces neural firing patterns synchronized to the wave's cycles.

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Neurons cannot fire fast enough to track high frequencies. Each theory covers the range the other cannot.

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