Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound

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.

 

Albert Bregman

Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, McGill University
Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound

Read More

Carol Lynne Krumhansl

Professor, Department of Psychology, Cornell University
The Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch

Read More

Eugene Narmour

Professor Emeritus, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania
The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures

Read More