Albert S. Bregman (1936 - ) is a Canadian

Canada

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 psychologist

Psychologist

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 and Professor Emeritus at McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

 who, for more than forty years, has carried out field-defining work on human auditory perception and auditory psychophysics. He is known for having coined the term Auditory scene analysis

Auditory scene analysis

In psychophysics, auditory scene analysis is the process by which the human auditory system organizes sound into perceptually meaningful elements. The term was coined by psychologist Albert Bregman...

 (ASA) with his 1990 book of the same title.

Bregman holds a B.A. (1957) and an M.A. (1959) from the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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 and a Ph.D. from Yale University

Yale University

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 (1963). From 1962 to 1965 he was a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University

Harvard University

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.

Prominent graduate students who have emerged from Bregman's lab at McGill University include Stephen Pinker (Harvard), Stephen McAdams (IRCAM

IRCAM

IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

, McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

), and James Wright

James Wright

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(Carleton).

Distinctions: Killam Fellowship (1984), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1995), Jacques-Rousseau Prize (1995), Hebb Award (2004)