| KOUROSH SABERI Ph.D., Biological Psychology, University of California at Berkeley Professor Faculty of: |
POSTGRADUATE POSITIONS: Research Fellow Senior Research Fellow |
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Isenberg, L., Vaden, K. I., Saberi, K., Muftuler, L. T., and Hickok, G. (2011). Functionally distinct regions for spatial processing and sensory motor integration in the Planum Temporale. Human Brain Mapping (in press).
2. Hsieh, I., Petrosyan, A., Goncalves, O., Hickok, G., and Saberi, K. (2011). Observer weighting of interaural cues in positive and negative envelope slopes of amplitude modulated waveforms. Hearing Research (in press).
3. Hickok, G. and Saberi, K. (2011). Redefining the Functional Organization of the Planum Temporale Region: Space, Objects, and Sensory-Motor Integration. Human Auditory Cortex (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) (in press).
4. Rogalsky, C., Rong, F., Saberi, K., and Hickok, G.
(2011). Functional anatomy of language and music perception:
Temporal and structural factors investigated using fMRI. Journal of Neuroscience, 31,
3843-3852. PDF
5. Hsieh, I., Petrosyan, A., Goncalves, O., Hickok, G., and
Saberi, K. (2010). Cross-modulation interference with
lateralization of mixed-modulated waveforms. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research,
53, 1417-1428. PDF
6. Okada, K., Rong, F., Venezia, J., Matchin, W., Hsieh, I., Saberi, K., Serences, J., and Hickok, G. (2010). Hierarchical organization of human auditory cortex: evidence from acoustic invariance in the response to intelligible speech. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 2486-2495. PDF
7. Hsieh, I., and Saberi, K. (2010). Detection of sinusoidal amplitude modulation in logarithmic frequency sweeps across wide regions of the spectrum. Hearing Research, 262, 9-18. PDF
8. Smith, K. R., Hsieh, I., Saberi, K., and Hickok, G. (2010). Auditory spatial and object processing in the human planum temporale: No evidence for selectivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 632-639. PDF
9. Hsieh, I., and Saberi, K. (2009). Detection of spatial cues in linear and logarithmic frequency-modulated sweeps. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1876-1889. PDF
10. Hsieh, I., and Saberi, K. (2009). Virtual pitch
extraction
from harmonic structures by absolute-pitch musicians. Acoustical Physics, 55, 232-239. PDF
11. Hsieh, I., and Saberi, K. (2008).
Language-selective
interference with long-term memory for musical pitch. Acta Acustica, 94, 588-593. PDF
12. Hsieh, I. and Saberi, K. (2008). Dissociation of procedural and semantic memory in absolute-pitch processing. Hearing Research, 240, 73-79. PDF
13. Hsieh, I. and Saberi, K. (2007). Temporal
integration
in absolute identification of musical pitch. Hearing Research, 233, 108-116. PDF
14. 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. PDF
15. 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. PDF
16. Saberi, K. and Petrosyan, A. (2006). Effects of
interaural
decorrelation and acoustic spectrum on detecting the motion of an
auditory
target. Acoustical Physics,
52, 87-92. PDF
17. Saberi, K. and Petrosyan, A. (2005). Neural
cross-correlation
and signal decorrelation: Insights into coding of auditory space.
Journal of Theoretical Biology,
235, 45-56.
PDF
18. Saberi, K. (2004). Fast Fourier-based DSP
algorithm
for auditory motion experiments. Behavior
Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 585-589. PDF Erratum
(v.
39. p. 635)
19. Smith, K. R., Okada, K., Saberi, K., and Hickok, G. (2004). Human cortical auditory motion areas are not motion selective. Neuroreport, 15, 1523-1526. PDF
20. Saberi, K., Antonio, J. V., and Petrosyan, A. (2004). A population study of the precedence effect. Hearing Research, 191, 1-13. PDF
21. Saberi, K., and Petrosyan, A. (2004). A detection-theoretic model of echo inhibition. Psychological Review, 111, 52-66. PDF
22. Saberi, K., and Antonio, J. V. (2003). Precedence-effect thresholds for a population of untrained listeners as a function of stimulus intensity and interclick interval. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 420-429. PDF
23. Saberi, K., Tirtabudi, P., Petrosyan, A., Perrott, D. R., and Strybel, T. Z. (2003). Detection of dynamic changes in interaural delay. Acta Acustica, 89, 333-338. PDF
24. Zurek, P., and Saberi, K. (2003). Lateralization of two-transient stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 65, 95-106. PDF
25. Saberi, K., Tirtabudi, P., Petrosyan, A., Perrott, D. R., and Strybel, T. Z. (2002). Concurrent motion detection based on dynamic changes in interaural delay. Hearing Research, 174, 149-157. PDF
26. Saberi, K., Takahashi, Y., Egnor, R., Farahbod, H., Mazer, J., and Konishi, M. (2002). Detection of large interaural delays and its implication for models of binaural interaction. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 3, 80-88. PDF
27. Pena, J. L., Viete, S., Funabiki, K., Saberi, K., and Konishi, M. (2001). Cochlear and neural delays for coincidence detection in owls, Journal of Neuroscience, 21, 9455-9459. PDF
28. Hafter, E. R., and Saberi, K. (2001). A level of stimulus representation model for auditory detection and attention. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 1489-1497. PDF
29. 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. PDF
30. Saberi, K. and Perrott, D. R. (1999). Cognitive restoration of reversed speech. Nature, 398, 760. PDF
31. Wright, B. and Saberi, K. (1999) Strategies used to detect auditory signals in small sets of random maskers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105, 1765-1775. PDF
32. 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. PDF
33. 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. PDF
34. Saberi, K. (1998). Modeling interaural delay sensitivity to frequency modulation at high frequencies. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103, 2551-2564. PDF
35. Saberi, K. and Green, D. M. (1997). Evaluation of maximum-likelihood estimators in non-intensive auditory psychophysics. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 867-876. PDF
36. Saberi, K. and Hafter, E. R. (1997). Experiments on auditory motion discrimination. In Binaural and Spatial Hearing in Real and Virtual Environments. R. H. Gilkey and T. R. Anderson (Eds.) Earlbaum, New Jersey, pp. 315-327. PDF
37. Saberi, K. (1996). Observer weighting of interaural delays in filtered impulses. Perception & Psychophysics, 58, 1037-1046. PDF
38. Saberi, K. and Green, D. M. (1996). Adaptive psychophysical procedures and imbalance in the psychometric function. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 528-536. PDF
39. Saberi, K. (1996). An auditory illusion predicted from a weighted cross- correlation model of binaural interaction. Psychological Review, 103, 137-142. PDF
40. Saberi, K. (1995). Lateralization of comodulated complex waveforms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 98, 3146-3156. PDF
41. Saberi, K. (1995). Some considerations on the use of adaptive methods for measuring interaural-delay thresholds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 1803-1806. PDF
42. Saberi, K. and Hafter, E. R. (1995). A common neural code for frequency- and amplitude-modulated sounds. Nature, 374, 537-539. PDF
43. Green, D. M., Dai, H., and Saberi, K. (1995). Shape discrimination of spectra with various bandwidths. In Advances in Hearing Research, G. A. Manley, G. M. Klump, C. Koppl, H. Fastl, and H. Oeckinghaus (Eds.), World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, 501-511. PDF
44. Saberi, K. and Perrott, D. R. (1995). Lateralization of trains of clicks with opposing onset and ongoing interaural delays. Acustica, 81, 272-275. PDF
45. Hafter, E. R., Saberi, K., Jensen, E., and Briolle, F. (1992). Localization in an echoic environment. In Advances in Bioacoustics (83): Auditory Physiology and Perception, Y. Cazals, L. Demany, K. Horner (Eds.), Pergamon, London, pp. 555-562. PDF
46. Saberi, K. (1991). Variations in the speed of sound and interaural differences of time: an additional source of jitter. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90, 1677. PDF
47. Saberi, K., Dostal, L., Sadralodabai, T., Bull, V., and Perrott, D. R. (1991). Free-field release from masking. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90, 1355-1370. PDF
48. Saberi, K., Dostal, L., Sadralodabai, T., and Perrott, D. R. (1991). Minimum audible angles for horizontal, vertical, and oblique orientations: lateral and dorsal planes. Acustica, 75, 57-61. PDF
49. Saberi, K., Sadralodabai, T., and Perrott, D. R. (1991). Judgments of lateral distance using transients presented with interaural differences of time. Bulletin of the Psychonomics society, 29, 59-61. PDF
50. Perrott, D. R., Sadralodabai, T., Saberi, K., and Strybel, T. Z. (1991). Aurally aided visual search in the central visual field: effects of visual load and visual enhancement of the target. Human Factors, 33, 389- 400. PDF
51. Saberi, K., and Perrott, D. R. (1990). Lateralization thresholds obtained under conditions in which the precedence effect is assumed to operate. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 87, 1732-1737. PDF
52. Saberi, K., and Perrott, D. R. (1990). Minimum audible movement angles as a function of sound-source trajectory. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 88, 2639-2644. PDF Erratum
53. Perrott, D. R., and Saberi, K. (1990). Minimum audible angle thresholds for sources varying in both elevation and azimuth. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 87, 1728-1731. PDF
54. Perrott, D. R., Saberi, K., Brown, K. and Strybel, T.
Z. (1990).
Auditory psychomotor coordination and visual search performance. Perception & Psychophysics, 48,
214-226.
PDF
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
1. Barton, B., Venezia, J., Saberi, K., Hickok, G., and Brewer, A. A. (2011). Orthogonal maps of tonotopy and periodicity in the human auditory core. 41st National meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Washington, D. C.8. Hsieh,
9. Fillmore, P.,
Hsieh,
11. Okada, K., Venezia, J., Matchin, W.,
Saberi,
K., Serences, J. T., Hickok, G. (2009). Early auditory cortical
regions
discriminate intelligible from unintelligible speech. 16th Annual
Meeting
of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (San Francisco,
CA).
PDF
12. Rogalsky, C., Saberi, K., and Hickok, G.
(2009).
Temporal
and structural contributions to activation of anterior temporal
sentence
processing regions: an fMRI study. 15th Annual
Meeting
of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (San
Francisco,
California). PDF
13. Hsieh, I., and Saberi, K. (2008). Lateralization of unidirectional FM sweeps at high frequencies. Acoustics08: International Conference on Acoustics (Paris, France).
14. Saberi, K., Smith, K., Hsieh, I., and
Hickok, G.
(2007). Neuroimaging correlates of spatial cues in speech and
noise
stimuli. Annual meeting of the Acoustical
Society
of America (New Orleans, Louisiana).
15. Saberi, K., and Hsieh, I. (2007). Lateralization of high-frequency FM sweeps. Annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (New Orleans, Louisiana).
16. Saberi, K. and Hsieh, I. (2007).
Temporal
integration in absolute identification of musical pitch. Annual
meeting
of the Society for
Neuroscience
(San Diego, CA).
17. Hsieh, I., and Saberi, K. (2007). Auditory localization of linear and logarithmic frequency-modulated (FM) sweeps. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, CA).
18. Hsieh, I. and Saberi (2007). Functional MRI and psychophysical studies of musical pitch processing by absolute-pitch musicians. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
19. Hsieh, I. and Saberi, K. (2006). Sensorimotor feedback and cognitive interference in absolute pitch production and perception. 36th National Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
20. Hsieh, I. and Saberi, K. (2006). Perception and production of virtual pitch by absolute-pitch musicians. Third Joint International Meeting of the Acoustical Soceity of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI.
21. Isenberg, A. L., Gage, N., Spence, M. A., and Saberi, K. (2006). Sound localization in development: a psychophysical study of binaural coherence in children with autism disorder and typically developing controls. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
22. Smith, K., Saberi, K., and Hickok, G. (2005).
Auditory
motion perception: An fMRI adaptation study. 35th National
meeting
of the Society
for Neuroscience. Washington, D.C.
23. Petrosyan, A. and Saberi, K. (2004). Motor function stability in a life-extended mutant. 34th National Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA [Abstracts].
24. Saberi, K., Smith, K. R., Okada, K. and Hickok, G. (2004). An fMRI study of motion selectivity in human auditory cortex. 11th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
25. Saberi, K., and Petrosyan, A. (2003). Auditory motion detection in the presence of distractor auditory events. 33rd National Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA [Abstracts].
26. Smith, K. R., Saberi, K. Gage, N., and Hickok, G. (2003). Is there a human cortical auditory motion area? 33rd National Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA [Abstracts].
27. Hafter, E. R., Schlauch, R., and Saberi, K. (2000). The use of cueing to illuminate the site of detection. XXVII International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden [Abstracts].
28. Saberi, K., Antonio, J., and Perrott, D. R. (2000). Learning and the precedence effect. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, FL [Abstracts].
29. Takahashi, Y, Farahbod, H., Saberi, K., and Konishi, M. (1999). Neural and behavioral responses to simple and complex binaural sounds by barn owls. 29th National Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Miami Beach, FL [Abstracts].
30. Saberi, K., Takahashi, Y., and Farahbod, H. Spectral integration in binaural processing. (1999). Joint International meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association, Berlin, Germany [Acta Acustica, 85, S464].
31. Saberi, K., Takahashi, Y., and Farahbod, H. (1999). Bandwidth effects in processing of complex binaural stimuli: Neurophysiology and psychophysics. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, FL [Abstracts].
32. Petrosyan, A., and Saberi, K. (1997). Psychometric functions for two-transient dichotic stimuli. 134th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA [JASA, 102, 3186].
33. Saberi, K. (1996). Interaural delay sensitivity to frequency modulation at high frequencies. 3rd Joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Japan. Honolulu, Hawaii [JASA, 100, 2632].
34. Saberi, K. and Green, D. M. (1996). Imbalance in psychometric functions and up-down rules. 19th midwinter research meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, Florida [Abstracts].
35. Saberi, K. (1995). Lateralization of high-frequency FM tones and frequency sweeps. 129th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Washington, D.C. [JASA, 97, 3412].
36. Wright, B. A. and Saberi, K. (1995). A molecular analysis of masker uncertainty. 18th midwinter research meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, Florida [Abstracts, p. 58].
37. Saberi, K. (1994). Lateralization of comodulated bands of noise. 127th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cambridge, MA [JASA, 95, 2895].
38. Saberi, K. (1994). Quantitative analysis of onset dominance in lateralization. 127th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cambridge, MA [JASA, 95, 2895].
39. Hafter, E. R., Jensen, E. R., Saberi, K., and Cohen, E. (1994). Detecting changes in an anechoic and echoic environment. 127th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cambridge, MA [JASA, 95, 2898].
40. Saberi, K. and Green, D. M. (1994). A maximum-likelihood method for lateralization. 127th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cambridge, MA [JASA, 95, 2895].
41. Saberi, K. and Hafter, E. R. (1993). Discriminating the direction of auditory motion. 125th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada [JASA, 93, 2316].
42. Hafter, E. R., Saberi, K., and Jensen, E. R. (1992). Localization in a virtual echoic environment. 124th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA [JASA, 92, 2334].
43. Hafter, E. R. and Saberi, K. (1992). Adaptation and release from it in free field listening. 123rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT [JASA, 91, 2414-2415].
44. Hafter, E. R., Saberi, K., Plamondon, L., and Jensen, E. (1992). Processing at different levels of the auditory system. Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, San Francisco, CA (Abstracts).
45. Hafter, E. R., and Saberi, K. (1992). Filters at the level of pitch. 15th midwinter research meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, Florida (Abstracts).
46. Saberi, K., and Hafter, E. R. (1992). Discrimination of dynamic changes in interaural delay. 15th midwinter research meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, Florida (Abstracts).
47. Hafter, E. R., Saberi, K., Schlauch, R. S., Plamondon, L., and Tang, J. (1992). Use of stimulus pre-cues to study processing at various levels of auditory and musical processing. Second International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
48. Hafter, E. R. and Saberi, K. (1991). Detection at the level of pitch. 121st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore, MD [JASA, 89, 1889].
49. Hafter, E. R., Saberi, K., Plamondon, L., and Jensen, E (1991). Selective attention in auditory detection, Psychonomic Society, 29, 476.
50. Saberi, K. and Hafter, E. R. (1991). Restarting the adapted binaural system in a background of noise. 121st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore, MD [JASA, 89, 1939].
51. Saberi, K., Dostal, L., Sadralodabai, T., Bull, V., and Perrott, D. R. (1990). Free-field masking-level differences. 120th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA [JASA, suppl. 1, 88, S98].
52. Saberi, K., Perrott, D. R., and Sadralodabai, T. (1990). On the metric of auditory lateralization. 70th annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA (Abstracts).
53. Saberi, K. and Perrott, D. R. (1990). Temporal mechanisms in auditory object formation. 70th annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA (Abstracts).
54. Saberi, K. and Perrott, D. R. (1989). Onset coding of spatial information in trains of identical transients. 118th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, St. Louis, Missouri [JASA, suppl. 1, 86, S11].
55. Perrott, D. R. and Saberi, K. (1989). Minimum audible movement angles for sources varying in both elevation and azimuth. 118th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, St. Louis, Missouri [JASA, suppl. 1, 86, S12].
56. Saberi, K. and Perrott, D. R. (1989). Confirmation and rejection of the precedence effect. 117th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Syracuse, N.Y. [JASA, 85, suppl. 1, S84].
57. Perrott, D. R. and Saberi, K. (1989). Functional integration of auditory and visual sensory processes. Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans (Abstracts).
58. Saberi, K., Perrott, D. R., and Pacheco, S. (1988). Utilization of spatially correlated auditory information in localization of visual targets. Second joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii [JASA, 84, suppl. 1, S80].
INVITED LECTURES & PAPERS:
Department of Psychology, University of
California
at Berkeley
Department of Psychology, University of North
Carolina
at Chapal Hill
Department of Psychology, Florida State
University
Department of Psychology, UNLV
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia
Department of Psychology, California State
University,
Los Angeles
Department of Integrative Biology, University
of
California at Berkeley
Division of Biology, Caltech
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Wright Patterson Airforce Base (Dayton, OH), Conference on Binaural
Hearing
Bavaria, Germany, International Symposium on
Hearing
Stockholm, Sweden , XXVII International
Congress
of Psychology
AD HOC REVIEWER:
Journal of Neuroscience
Psychological Review
Nature
Brain Research
Perception & Psychophysics
Perception
Hearing Research
Journal of Comparative Physiology
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Hearing Research
Acta Acustica
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
International Journal of Audiology
PLoS Biology
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
National Institutes of Health (Grant
review)
National Science Foundation ,
Cognitive
Neuroscience (Grant review)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant review)
UC Discovery Grant: Industry-University Cooperative Research Program
(Grant
review)
The Wellcome Trust (United Kingdom; Grant review)
Israel Science Foundation (Grant review)
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Dutch Research
Council,
NWO) (Grant review)