Albert Bregman

Albert Bregman's work has explored how human listeners succeed in perceptually organizing the complex acoustic field into distinct sound sources and the events and event streams they produce. His conception of perceptual organization draws its main inspiration from the Gestalt psychologists, but he has brought many concepts from computer science and artificial intelligence to bear on his theorizing. Al's research has provided an impressive edifice that was summarized in his monumental book Auditory Scene Analysis. His work has stimulated a plethora of research programs in experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence and signal processing, and even auditory neurophysiology. This richness of aftermath is in large part due to the impressive theoretical framework developed in his book.