Albert S. Bregman

Research Areas:

Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Summary:

Prof. Bregman has closed his laboratory, but continues to carry out collaborative research and theoretical work at McGill and abroad on auditory scene analysis (ASA), the perceptual process in which the auditory systems of humans (and other animals) recover separate descriptions of the individual sounds in a mixture. ASA affects our perception of all the basic properties of sounds, including loudness, timbre, and spatial location, and our comprehension of speech and music. Dr. Bregman is also studying a more general, but related, topic: the compositional nature of human perception, action and thought.

Selected References:

Bregman, A.S. (2008) Auditory scene analysis. In Squire, L.R. (Editor-in-Chief.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Oxford, UK: Academic Press.

Bregman, A.S. (2005). Auditory Scene Analysis and the Role of Phenomenology in Experimental Psychology. Canadian Psychology, 46 (1), 32-40.

Bregman, A.S., & Ahad, P. (1996) Demonstrations of Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound. Audio compact disk. (Distributed by MIT Press).

Bregman, A.S. (1990). Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1990 (hardcover)/1994 (paperback).