Saberi Selected Publications

Spatial hearing of complex sounds.

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. PMID: 1939900

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. PMID: 9808465

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. PMID: 12433406

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. PMID: 19301992.

Hickok, G. and Saberi, K. (2012).  Redefining the Functional Organization of the Planum Temporale Region: Space, Objects, and Sensory-Motor Integration. In:  Human Auditory Cortex (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research), D. Poeppel, T. Overath, A. N. Popper, and R. R. Fay. (Eds). Springer, pp. 333-350. DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-2314-0-12

Modulation detection: the building blocks of complex sounds.

Saberi, K. and Hafter, E. R. (1995). A common neural code for frequency- and amplitude-modulated sounds.  Nature, 374, 537-539. PMID: 7700378

Saberi, K. (1995).  Lateralization of comodulated complex waveforms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 3146-3156. PMID: 8550940

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. PMID: 20144700

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. PMID: 2068903

Hsieh, I., Fillmore, P., Rong, F., Hickok, G., and Saberi, K. (2012).  FM-selective networks in human auditory cortex revealed using fMRI and multivariate pattern classification.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 1896-1907. PMID: 22640390

Perception of Speech and Music.

Saberi, K. and Perrott, D. R.  (1999). Cognitive restoration of reversed speech.  Nature, 398, 760. PMID: 10235257

Hsieh, I. and Saberi, K. (2007).  Temporal integration in absolute identification of musical pitch.  Hearing Research, 233, 108-116. PMID: 17919863

Hsieh, I., and Saberi, K. (2008).  Language-selective interference with long-term memory for musical pitch.  Acta Acustica, 94, 588-593.  DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918068

Hsieh, I. and Saberi, K. (2008).  Dissociation of procedural and semantic memory in absolute-pitch processing.  Hearing Research, 240, 73-79. PMID: 18430531

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. PMID: 21389239

Hsieh IH, Saberi K. (2016). Imperfect pitch: Gabor’s uncertainty principle and the pitch of extremely brief sounds. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(1), 163-171. doi:10.3758/s13423-015-0863-y

Measurement methodology and signal processing.

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. PMID: 7560514

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. PMID: 8675846

Saberi, K. and Green, D. M. (1997).  Evaluation of maximum-likelihood estimators in non-intensive auditory psychophysics.  Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 867-876. PMID: 9270361

Saberi, K. (2004).  Fast Fourier-based DSP algorithm for auditory motion experiments.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 585-589. PMID: 15641403

Models of auditory perception.

Saberi, K. (1996).  An auditory illusion predicted from a weighted cross- correlation model of binaural interaction.  Psychological Review, 103, 137-142. PMID: 8650296

Saberi, K. (1998).  Modeling interaural delay sensitivity to frequency modulation at high frequencies. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103, 2551-2564. PMID: 9604349

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. PMID: 11572359

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. PMID: 12083726

Saberi, K., and Petrosyan, A. (2004).  A detection-theoretic model of echo inhibition.  Psychological Review, 111, 52-66. PMID: 14756585

Selected Recent Publications

Farahbod H, Rogalsky C, Keator LM, Cai J, Pillay SB, Turner K, LaCroix A, Fridriksson J, Binder JR, Middlebrooks JC, Hickok G, Saberi K. (2023). Informational Masking in Aging and Brain-lesioned Individuals. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 24(1), 67-79. doi:10.1007/s10162-022-00877-9

Saberi K, Hickok G. (2023). Forward entrainment: Psychophysics, neural correlates, and function. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(3), 803-821. doi:10.3758/s13423-022-02220-y

Saberi K, Farahbod H, Turner K, Hickok G. (2022). Detection of dynamic changes in interaural delay by older adults (L). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4), 2292. doi:10.1121/10.0014833

Saberi K, Hickok G. (2022). Confirming an antiphasic bicyclic pattern of forward entrainment in signal detection: A reanalysis of Sun et al. (2021). European Journal of Neuroscience, 56(8), 5274-5286. doi:10.1111/ejn.15816

Saberi K, Hickok G. (2022). A critical analysis of Lin et al.’s (2021) failure to observe forward entrainment in pitch discrimination. European Journal of Neuroscience, 56(8), 5191-5200. doi:10.1111/ejn.15778

Farahbod H, Saberi K, Hickok G. (2020). The rhythm of attention: Perceptual modulation via rhythmic entrainment is lowpass and attention mediated. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(7), 3558-3570. doi:10.3758/s13414-020-02095-y

Broussard S, Hickok G, Saberi K. (2017). Robustness of speech intelligibility at moderate levels of spectral degradation. PLoS One, 12(7), e0180734. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180734

Venezia JH, Vaden KI Jr, Rong F, Maddox D, Saberi K, Hickok G. (2017). Auditory, Visual and Audiovisual Speech Processing Streams in Superior Temporal Sulcus. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 174. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2017.00174

Meng JA, Saberi K, Hsieh IH. (2016). Velocity Selective Networks in Human Cortex Reveal Two Functionally Distinct Auditory Motion Systems. PLoS One, 11(6), e0157131. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157131

Petrosyan A, Hsieh IH, Phillips JP, Saberi K. (2015). Enhanced tethered-flight duration and locomotor activity by overexpression of the human gene SOD1 in Drosophila motorneurons. Genetics and Molecular Biology, 38(1), 107-114. doi:10.1590/S1415-475738138120140132

Hickok G, Farahbod H, Saberi K. (2015). The Rhythm of Perception: Entrainment to Acoustic Rhythms Induces Subsequent Perceptual Oscillation. Psychological Science, 26(7), 1006-1013. doi:10.1177/0956797615576533

Petrosyan A, Gonçalves OF, Hsieh IH, Saberi K. (2014). Improved functional abilities of the life-extended Drosophila mutant Methuselah are reversed at old age to below control levels. Age (Dordrecht), 36(1), 213-221. doi:10.1007/s11357-013-9568-1

Okada K, Venezia JH, Matchin W, Saberi K, Hickok G. (2013). An fMRI Study of Audiovisual Speech Perception Reveals Multisensory Interactions in Auditory Cortex. PLoS One, 8(6), e68959. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068959

Petrosyan A, Gonçalves OF, Hsieh IH, Phillips JP, Saberi K. (2013). Enhanced optomotor efficiency by expression of the human gene superoxide dismutase primarily in Drosophila motorneurons. Journal of Neurogenetics, 27(1-2), 59-67. doi:10.3109/01677063.2013.779694

Barton B, Venezia JH, Saberi K, Hickok G, Brewer AA. (2012). Orthogonal acoustic dimensions define auditory field maps in human cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(50), 20738-20743. doi:10.1073/pnas.1213381109

Venezia JH, Saberi K, Chubb C, Hickok G. (2012). Response Bias Modulates the Speech Motor System during Syllable Discrimination. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 157. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00157

Isenberg AL, Vaden KI Jr, Saberi K, Muftuler LT, Hickok G. (2012). Functionally distinct regions for spatial processing and sensory motor integration in the planum temporale. Human Brain Mapping, 33(10), 2453-2463. doi:10.1002/hbm.21373