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Publications of the laboratory

Book

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

Audio Compact Disk

Bregman, A.S., & Ahad, P. (1996) Demonstrations of Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound. Audio compact disk. (Distributed by MIT Press). Downloadable from the present website (see tab "ASA Demos" above this text).

Articles in Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Bregman, A.S. (2007) Auditory scene analysis. in A.I. Basbaum, A. Koneko, G.M. Shepherd & G.Westheimer (Eds.) The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, Vol. 3, Audition, P. Dallos & D. Oertel (Volume Eds.) San Diego: Academic Press, 2008, Pp. 861-870. (pdf)

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

Bregman, A.S. (2004) Auditory scene analysis. In N.J. Smelzer & P.B. Baltes (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Pergamon (Elsevier). Pp. 940-942. (pdf)

Book Chapters, Forewords, and Published Conference Proceedings

Bregman, A.S. (2006) Auditory scene analysis in the perception of music. In K. Gfeller, D. D. Coffman, C. X. Rordiguez, & D. J. Nelson (Eds.) Multidimensional Perspectives on Musicality: Essays from the Seashore Symposium. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa School of Music.

Bregman, A.S. (2006) Foreword to Wang, D. & Brown, G.J. (Eds.) Computational Auditory Scene Analysis: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications, IEEE Press / John Wiley & Sons. (pdf)

Woszczyk, W. & Bregman, A.S., (2005) Creating mixtures: The application of auditory scene analysis (ASA) to audio recording. In K. Greenebaum and R. Barzel (Eds.) Audio Anecdotes III: Tools, tips and techniques for digital audio. Natick, MA.: A. K. Peters. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. (2005) Foreword to Divenyi, P. (Ed.). Speech separation by humans and machines. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S., & Woszczyk, W. (2004) Controlling the perceptual organization of sound: Guidelines derived from principles of auditory scene analysis. In K. Greenebaum and R. Barzel (Eds.) Audio Anecdotes: Tools, tips and techniques for digital audio. Vol.1. Natick, MA.: A. K. Peters (pdf)

Bregman, A. S. (2002).The auditory scene. In Levitin, Daniel J. (Ed). Foundations of cognitive psychology: Core readings. Cambridge, MA, US: MIT Press. (pp. 213-248).

Bregman, A.S. (1998). Psychological data and computational ASA. In David F. Rosenthal and Hiroshi G. Okuno (Eds.), Computational Auditory Scene Analysis . Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Bregman, A.S. (1996) Perceptual interpretation and the neurobiology of perception. In R. Llinás and P.S. Churchland (Eds.), The mind-brain continuum: Sensory Processes. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, pp. 203-217.

Bregman, A.S. (1994) Foreword. In G. Kramer (Ed.) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Auditory Display. 1994.

Bregman, A.S. (1994). L'analyse de la scène auditive: l'audition dans des environnements complexes. dans S.E. McAdams & E. Bigand, (Eds.) Penser les sons: Psychologie cognitive de l'audition. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

Bregman, A.S. (1993) Auditory scene analysis: Listening in complex environments. In S.E. McAdams, and E. Bigand (Eds.) Thinking in sound. London: Oxford University Press, pp. 10-36. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. (1991). Using quick glimpses to decompose mixtures. In J. Sundberg, L. Nord, & R. Carlson (Eds.), Music, language, speech and brain. Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series, with sound examples on a CD phonogram. London: MacMillan.

Bregman, A.S. (1991). Timbre, orchestration, dissonance, et l'organization auditive. In J.-B. Barrière (Ed.), Le timbre, métaphores pour la composition. Paris: Christian Bourgeois.

Bregman, A.S. (1990). The compositional process in cognition with applications to speech perception. In I.G. Mattingly & M. Studdert-Kennedy (Eds.), Modularity and the motor theory of speech perception. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Bregman, A.S. (1987). The meaning of duplex perception: sounds as transparent objects. In M.E.H. Schouten (Ed.), The psychophysics of speech perception. Martinus-Nijhoff NATO-ASI series.

Bregman, A.S. (1984). Auditory scene analysis. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Pattern Recognition. Silver Spring, MD: IEEE Computer Press. (Library of Congress No. 84-80909.

Bregman, A.S. (1981) Asking the "what for" question in auditory perception. In M. Kubovy and J.R. Pomerantz (Eds.), Perceptual Organization. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Bregman, A.S. The formation of auditory streams. In J. Requin (Ed.), Attention and Performance VII. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1978.

Miller, G.A., Bregman, A.S. & Norman, D.A. The computer as a general purpose device for the control of psychological experiments. In R.W. Stacy and B. Waxman (Eds.), Computers in Biomedical Research. New York: Academic Press, 1965.

Papers in Refereed Journals

Crum, P.A., & Bregman, A.S. (2006) The effects of unit formation on the perception of a changing sound. Quarterly journal of Experimental Psychology. 59(3), 543-556. (pdf)

Turgeon, M., Bregman, A.S., & Roberts, B. (2005). Rhythmic masking release: Effects of asynchrony, temporal overlap, harmonic relations, and source separation on cross-spectral grouping. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. 31 (5), 939-953. (pdf)

Sussman, E., Bregman, A. S., Wang, W.J., & Khan, F.J. (2005). Attentional modulation of electrophysiological activity in auditory cortex for unattended sounds in multi-stream auditory environments. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5 (1), 93-110. (pdf)

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

Turgeon, M., Bregman, A.S., & Ahad, P.A. (2002). Rhythmic masking release: Contribution of cues for perceptual organization to the cross-spectral fusion of concurrent narrow-band noises. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111 (4), 1819-1831. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S., Ahad, P., & Van Loon, C. (2001). Stream segregation of narrow-band noise bursts. Perception & Psychophysics. 63(5)790-797. (pdf)

Parncutt, R., & Bregman, A.S. (2000). Tone profiles following short chord progressions: Top-down or bottom-up? Music Perception, 18 (1), 25-57.

Bregman, A. S., Ahad, P. A., Crum, P. A. C. & O'Reilly, J. (2000). Effects of time intervals and tone durations on auditory stream segregation. Perception & Psychophysics, 62(3), 626-636. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S., Colantonio, C., & Ahad, P.A. (1999) Is a common grouping mechanism involved in the phenomena of illusory continuity and stream segregation? Perception & Psychophysics, 61 (2). (pdf)

Rogers, W.L., & Bregman, A.S. (1998). Cumulation of the tendency to segregate auditory streams: Resetting by changes in location and loudness. Perception & Psychophysics, 60 (7), 1216-1227. (pdf)

Singh, P.G., & Bregman, A.S. (1997). Effect of different timbre attributes on the perceptual segregation of complex-tone sequences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102 (4), 1943-1952. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. (1995) Constraints on computational models of auditory scene analysis, as derived from human perception. Invited tutorial paper. Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E), 16, 3, 133-136.

Bregman, A.S. (1994) What is auditory scene analysis? (In special issue on auditory scene analysis). Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, 50 (12), 1007-1010.

Bregman, A.S., Ahad, P., & Kim, J. (1994) Resetting the pitch analysis system. 2: Role of sudden onsets and offsets in the perception of individual components in a cluster of overlapping tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 2694-2703. (pdf)

Mondor, T.A., & Bregman, A.S. (1994) Allocating attention to frequency regions: The frequency sensitivity effect revisited. Perception & Psychophysics, 56, 268-276. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S., Ahad, P., Kim, J., & Melnerich, L. (1994) Resetting the pitch analysis system. 1: Effects of rise time of tones in noise backgrounds or of harmonics in a complex tone. Perception & Psychophysics, 56, 155-162. (pdf)

McPherson, L.M.P., Ciocca, V., & Bregman, A.S. (1994) Organization in audition by similarity in rate of change: Evidence from tracking individual frequency glides in mixtures. Perception & Psychophysics, 55 (3), 269-278. (pdf)

Rogers, W.L., & Bregman, A.S. (1993). An experimental evaluation of three theories of auditory stream segregation. Perception & Psychophysics, 53, 179-190. (pdf)

Singh, P.G., & Bregman, A.S. (1993) Spectro-temporal factors in the perceptual segregation of tonal sequences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 93 (4), 2363.

Chalikia, M.H., & Bregman, A.S. (1993). The perceptual segregation of simultaneous vowels with harmonic, shifted, or random components. Perception & Psychophysics, 53, 125-133. (pdf)

Singh, P.G., & Bregman, A.S. (1992) Perceptual segregation of tones embedded in modulated noise maskers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 91(4), Pt.2, 2333-2334.

Singh, P.G., & Bregman, A.S. (1992). Scaling the perceptual clarity of the presence or absence of target tones embedded in modulated noise maskers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 92(4), Pt. 2, 2362.

Ciocca, V., Bregman, A.S., & Capreol, K.L. (1992). The phonetic integration of speech and nonspeech sounds: Effects of perceived location. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology., 44A, 577-593. (pdf)

Rogers, W.L., & Bregman, A.S. (1991). Auditory streaming: a central change-sensitive process. Canadian Psychology, 32 (2A), 290 (A).

Roberts, B., and Bregman, A.S. (1991). Effects of the pattern of spectral spacing on the perceptual fusion of harmonics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90 (6), 3050-3060. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. , Liao, C., & Levitan, R. (1990). Auditory grouping based on fundamental frequency and formant peak frequency. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 44 (3), 400-413. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. , Levitan, R., & Liao, C. (1990). Fusion of auditory components: Effects of the frequency of amplitude modulation. Perception & Psychophysics, 47, 68-73. (pdf)

Roberts, B., & Bregman, A.S. (1990) Effects of the pattern of spectral spacing on the perceptual fusion of harmonics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 88 (S1), S146 (A).

Tougas, Y., & Bregman, A.S. (1990). Auditory streaming and the continuity illusion. Perception & Psychophysics, 47, 121-126. (pdf)

Chalikia, M.H., & Bregman, A.S. (1989). The perceptual segregation of simultaneous auditory signals: Pulse train segregation and vowel segregation. Perception & Psychophysics, 46 (5), 487-496. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S., & Tougas, Y. (1989). Propagation of constraints in auditory organization. Perception & Psychophysics, 46, 395-396. (pdf)

French-St. George, M., & Bregman, A.S. (1989). Stream segregation as a function of predictability of frequency and timing. Perception & Psychophysics, 46, 384-386. (pdf)

Ciocca, V., & Bregman, A.S. (1989). The effects of auditory streaming on duplex perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 46, 39-48. (pdf)

Ciocca, V., & Bregman, A.S. (1987). Perceived continuity of gliding and steady-state tones through interrupting noise. Perception & Psychophysics, 42, 476-484. (pdf)

McAdams, S., & Bregman, A. (1987) L'audition des flux musicaux. Marsyas: Revue de pédagogie musicale et choréographique, numro 3-4, décembre.

Wright, J.K., & Bregman, A.S. (1987) Auditory stream segregation and the control of dissonance in polyphonic music. Contemporary Music Review, 2, 63-92.

Tougas, Y. & Bregman, A.S. (1985). The crossing of auditory streams. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 11, 788-798. (pdf)

Steiger, H., Negrete, J.C., Bregman, A.S., & Boudreault, M.F. (1985) Central auditory processing in alcoholics: transient ototoxic effects and their relation to field dependence. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 16, 39-50.

Bregman, A.S., Abramson, J., Doehring, P. & Darwin, C.J. (1985) Spectral integration based on common amplitude modulation. Perception & Psychophysics, 37, 483-493. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S., & Doehring, P. (1984) Fusion of simultaneous tonal glides: the role of parallelness and simple frequency relations. Perception & Psychophysics, 36, 251-256. (pdf)

Steiger, H. & Bregman, A.S. (1982) Competition among auditory streaming, dichotic fusion, and diotic fusion. Perception & Psychophysics, 32, 153-162. (pdf)

Steiger, H. & Bregman, A.S. (1982) Negating the effects of binaural cues: competition between auditory streaming and contralateral induction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 8, 602-613. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. (1982) Analyzing spectra that won't stand still. Canadian University Music Review, 3, 31-48.

Steiger, H. & Bregman, A.S. (1981) Capturing frequency components of glided tones: frequency separation, orientation and alignment. Perception & Psychophysics, 30, 425-435. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. & Steiger, H. (1980) Auditory streaming and vertical localization: interdependence of "what" and "where" decisions in audition. Perception & Psychophysics, 28, 539-546. (pdf)

McAdams, S., & Bregman, A.S. Hearing musical streams. (1979) Computer Music Journal, 3, 26-43.

Dannenbring, G.L. & Bregman, A.S. (1978) Streaming vs. fusion of sinusoidal components of complex waves. Perception & Psychophysics, 24, 369-376. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. & Pinker, S. (1978) Auditory streaming and the building of timbre. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 32, 19-31. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. (1978) Auditory streaming: competition among alternative organizations. Perception & Psychophysics, 23, 391-398. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. (1978) Auditory streaming is cumulative. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4, 380-387. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. & Dannenbring, G.L. (1977) Auditory continuity and amplitude edges. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 31, 151-159. (pdf)

Dannenbring, G.L. & Bregman, A.S. (1976) Stream segregation and the illusion of overlap. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2, 544-555. (pdf)

Dannenbring, G.L. & Bregman, A.S. (1976) The effect of silence on auditory stream segregation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 59, 987-989. (pdf)

Dannenbring, G.L. (1976). Perceived auditory continuity with alternately rising and falling frequency transitions.Canadian Journal of Psychology, 30, 99-114. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. & Dannenbring, G. (1973) The effect of continuity on auditory stream segregation. Perception & Psychophysics, 13, 308-312. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. & Achim, A. (1973) Visual stream segregation. Perception & Psychophysics, 13, 451-454. (pdf)

Bregman, A.S. & Campbell, J. (1971) Primary auditory stream segregation and perception of order in rapid sequences of tones. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 89, 244-249. (pdf)