Kourosh Saberi

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Professor, Cognitive Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Fax: (949) 824-2307
Email: saberi@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
2332 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway Building
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Perception, Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Systems, Neural Bases of Consciousness
Publications
Saberi, K., and Hickok, G. (2023). Forward Entrainment: Psychophysics, neural correlates, and function. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
DOI: 0.3758/s13423-022-02220-y
Farahbod, H., Keator, L. M., Cai, J., Pillay, S., Turner, K., LaCroix, A., Rogalsky, C., Fridriksson, J., Binder, J. R., Middlebrooks, J. C., Hickok, G., and Saberi, K. (2023). Informational masking in aging and brain-lesioned individuals. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
DOI: 0.1007/s10162-022-00877-9
Saberi, K., Farahbod, H., Turner, K., and Hickok, G. (2022). Detection of dynamic changes in interaural delay by older adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, 2292-2295
DOI: 10.1121/10.0014833
Saberi, K., and Hickok, G. (2022). Confirming an antiphasic bicyclic pattern of forward entrainment in signal detection: a reanalysis of Sun et al. European Journal of Neuroscience, 56, 5274-5286.
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15816
Farahbod, H., Saberi, K., and Hickok, G. (2020). The rhythm of attention: Perceptual modulation via rhythmic entrainment is lowpass and attention mediated. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3558-3570.
Saberi, K. and Hafter, E. R. (1995). A common neural code for frequency- and amplitude-modulated sounds. Nature, 374, 537-539.
Saberi, K. and Perrott, D. R. (1999). Cognitive restoration of reversed speech. Nature, 398, 760.
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.
Barton, B., Venezia, J. H., Saberi, K., Hickok, G., and Brewer, A. (2012). Orthogonal acoustic dimensions define auditory field maps in human cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 20738-20743.
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.
Saberi, K., Takahashi, Y., Konishi, M., Albeck, Y., Arthur, B., and Farahbod, H. (1998). Effects of interaural decorrelation on neural and behavioral detection of spatial cues. Neuron, 21, 789-798.
Other Experience
Research Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Senior Research Fellow, Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Last updated
12/08/2023