User:Carino, Cz/Virtual pitch

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The pitch perceived with the first harmonic being absent in the waveform is called the missing fundamental phenomenon.

The pitch being perceived with the first harmonic being absent in the waveform is called the missing fundamental phenomenon. (cite Google book)

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The brain perceives the pitch of a tone not only by its fundamental frequency, but also by the periodicity implied by the relationship between the higher harmonics; we may perceive the same pitch (perhaps with a different timbre) even if the fundamental frequency is missing from a tone.

Explanation
In Parsing the Spectral Envelope (2016) by Ian Howell, He wrote that although not everyone can hear the missing fundamentals, noticing them can be taught and learned. (cite thesis) D. Robert Ladd et al. have a related study that claims that most people can switch from listening for the pitch from the harmonics that are evident to finding these pitches spectrally. (cite journal)