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Kourosh Saberi

Professor, Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences

PH.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993

Phone: (949) 824-6310
Fax: (949) 824-2307
Email: saberi@uci.edu

University of California
Social Science Plaza, SSP-A4135
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697


Research
Interests
Signal detection & Psychophysics, Cortical neuroscience, Hearing Research, Music Perception
   
URL www.socsci.uci.edu/~saberi/
   
Appointments Research Fellow (1995-1997): Department of Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior Research Fellow (1997-1999): Division of Biology, Caltech
   
Publications Hsieh, I., and Saberi, K. (2009). Detection of spatial cues in linear and logarithmic frequency-modulated sweeps. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, (in press).
   
  Smith, K. R., Hsieh, I., Saberi, K., and Hickok, G. (2009). Auditory spatial and object processing in the human planum temporale: No evidence for selectivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, (in press).
   
  Hsieh, I. and Saberi, K. (2008). Dissociation of procedural and semantic memory in absolute-pitch processing. Hearing Research, 240, 73-79.
   
  Smith, K., Saberi, K., and Hickok, G. (2007). An event-related fMRI study of auditory motion perception: No evidence for a specialized cortical system. Brain Research, 1150, 94-99
   
  Petrosyan, A., Hsieh, I., and Saberi, K. (2007). Age-dependent stability of sensorimotor functions in the life-extended Drosophila mutant methuselah. Behavior Genetics, 37, 585-594
   
  Hsieh, I. and Saberi, K. (2007). Temporal integration in absolute identification of musical pitch. Hearing Research, 233, 108-116
   
  Saberi, K. and Petrosyan, A. (2005). Neural cross-correlation and signal decorrelation: Insights into coding of auditory space. Journal of Theoretical Biology (in press).
   
  Smith, K. R., Okada, K., Saberi, K., and Hickok, G. (2004). Human cortical auditory motion areas are not motion selective. Neuroreport, 15, 1523-1526.
   
  Saberi, K., and Petrosyan, A. (2004). A detection-theoretic model of echo inhibition. Psychological Review, 111, 52-66.
   
  Saberi, K. and Perrott, D. R. (1999). Cognitive restoration of reversed speech. Nature, 398, 760.
   
  Saberi, K. and Hafter, E. R. (1995). A common neural code for frequency- and amplitude-modulated sounds. Nature, 374, 537-539.
   
  Saberi, K., Takahashi, Y., Farahbod, H., and Konishi, M. (1999). Neural bases of an auditory illusion and its elimination in owls. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 656-659.
   
  Saberi, K., Farahbod, H., and Konishi, M. (1998). How do owls localize interaurally phase ambiguous signals? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 95, 6465-6468.
   
Grants National Science Foundation: Dimensions of Organization in Human Auditory Cortex
   
National Institutes of Health: Integrative Functions of the Planum Temporale
   
Research Centers Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
   
Center for Hearing Research
   
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Last updated 08/29/2009