Fig. 4.

Harmonic advantage persists when listeners know what to listen for (Experiment 2). a Schematic of the trial structure for Experiment 2. During each trial, participants heard two noise bursts, both of which were preceded by a ‘cue’ tone, and one of which contained a tone that was identical to the cue. Participants were asked to decide whether the first or second noise burst contained the cued tone. Example in schematic shows a trial with inharmonic tones. b Results from Experiment 2, shown as box-and-whisker-plots, with black lines plotting individual participant results. Asterisks denote significance, two-sided Wilcoxon signed-rank test: **=p<0.01