Our goal is to develop theoretical and computational models of auditory perception; we are particularly interested in understanding music and speech perception from a neurological perspective. In our work we address issues such as the representation and recognition of timbre, the multi-scale structure of acoustic stimuli at various perceptually significant time scales, the segregation and grouping of sounds within a complex acoustic scene, and the role of attention in modulating processing.

Current modelling studies:

• bistability of perceptual organisation in auditory streaming
• neurocomputational model of thalamocortical auditory processing
• hierarchical generative model of pitch perception
• efferent control in auditory processing
• perceptual onsets and the perception of rhythmic structure in music

Current perceptual experiments:

• influence of listening strategy on pitch matching
• limiting factors on relative pitch perception
• influence of prior experience and saliency on statistical learning

Our work is supported by an EU grant:

• EmCAP: European Community grant IST-FET Open (FP6-013123) Emergent cognition through Active Perception. Project together with 4 other groups in Europe. 2 Postdocs and 2 PhD students at CTCN.