{"id":7998,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/frequency\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:55","slug":"frequency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/frequency\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of oscillation in a sound (or other) wave in a specified time period. &nbsp;More technically, it is the number of times that a wave repeats itself in one second, which is expressed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Hertz\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Hertz&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hertz<\/a> (Hz) or cycles per second (e.g., middle C has a frequency of 256 Hz, and alpha waves as measured EEG 8-10 Hz). &nbsp;High-pitch sounds have a high fundamental frequency (F\u2080).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"dynamics\">Dynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"electroencephalogram_-eeg-\">Electroencephalogram (EEG)<\/a>, <a href=\"fm_system\">FM system<\/a>, <a href=\"fundamental_frequency_-f----\">Fundamental frequency (F\u2080)<\/a>, <a href=\"pitch\">Pitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of oscillation in a sound (or other) wave in a specified time period. &nbsp;More technically, it is the number of times that a wave repeats itself in one second, which is expressed in hertz (Hz) or cycles per second (e.g., middle C has a frequency of 256 Hz, and alpha waves as measured &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/frequency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frequency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}