Relationship between brainstem, cortical and behavioral measures relevant to pitch salience in humans

► Brainstem and cortical neural responses to pitch compared to behavioral measure. ► Magnitudes of neural responses increase systematically with temporal regularity. ► Behavioral pitch discrimination improves with increasing stimulus periodicity. ► Pitch discrimination well predicted by brainstem and cortical pitch representations. ► Adequate neural information available for development of perceptual pitch salience.