17 Facts About Albert Bregman

Albert Stanley Bregman was a Canadian academic and researcher in experimental psychology, cognitive science, and Gestalt psychology, primarily in the perceptual organization of sound.

Until his death, Albert Bregman held a post-retirement appointment at the rank of emeritus professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University.

Albert Bregman taught courses on Computer and Man, Research methods in experimental psychology, Learning Theory, Auditory Perception, Psychological Theory, and honors research seminars.

Albert Bregman was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on September 15,1936.

Albert Bregman's father was an office manager and his mother, a home-maker.

Albert Bregman had one sister, who lives in Jerusalem, Israel.

Albert Bregman's wife is a retired history professor and active artist.

Albert Bregman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University College of the University of Toronto, with a concentration in Philosophy, in 1957.

Albert Bregman received a master's degree in Psychology, from the University of Toronto, in 1959, after which he worked as a research assistant for two summers for Endel Tulving, studying how subjective organization affected the process of memorization.

Albert Bregman taught two courses in the Harvard Psychology Department.

Albert Bregman arrived at McGill University in 1965 as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, rose to the rank of full professor, and in 1999 received a lifetime post-retirement appointment in the Psychology Department at the rank of emeritus professor.

Albert Bregman spent sabbatical periods at Cornell University, the University of Sussex, and at Stanford University, where he was associated with the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, founded by John Chowning.

Albert Bregman gave invited lectures on auditory scene analysis at many universities, including Harvard, MIT, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell, Virginia, Toronto, Hong Kong, ETH Zurich, Oldenburg, Thessaloniki, and the New University of Lisbon, as well as at research institutes including Advanced Technology Research in Kyoto, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone in Tokyo, the Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project in Tokyo, and Dolby Labs in San Francisco.

Albert Bregman's first research at McGill was a continuation of his earlier research on memory.

Albert Bregman developed the concept of auditory stream segregation to describe how a single sequence of sounds could be interpreted by the auditory system as two or more concurrent streams of sound.

In 1992, Albert Bregman set up an electronic mail list, AUDITORY, on the topic of auditory perception.

Albert Bregman was elected fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association in 1978, the American Psychological Association in 1984, and the Royal Society of Canada in 1995.