Shigeto Furukawa, Ph.D. NTT Communication Science Laboratories Human and Information Science Laboratory Sensory and motor research group Senior Researcher

Research: Auditory psychophysics and neurophysiology

• Mechanisms of auditory space perception
  • Processes of integrating sound localization cues
  • Neural representation of auditory space
  • Perception of space in realisitic environments
• Perceptual sound source segregation (Cocktail party effect)
• Plasticity of the auditory system
  

News

• A psychophysical paper on the processing of the sound localization cues has appeared on J Acoust Soc Am. (Mar 2008)
• A study on neural coding of the auditory space in the brainstem was presented at the ARO midwinter meeting. (Feb 2008)