RICHARD E. PASTOREDistinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
Ph.D., Purdue University
Post-doctoral Fellow: Central Institute for the Deaf (St. Louis, MO)
Visiting Scientist: Haskins Laboratories (New Haven, CT)
Area: Cognitive Psychology
E-mail: pastore@binghamton.edu
Phone: 607-777-2539
Office: Science IV, Room 104
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Consulting Editor: Perception & Psychophysics; Fellow: American Psychological Society, American Psychological Association; Center for Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Sciences
Auditory perception, cognition, and attention; human factors
The Psychoacoustics-Auditory Cognition Laboratory has a broad research program focused on a number of different, but interrelated themes about the nature and interaction of bottom-up and top-down processing of complex auditory stimuli. Current research is distributed across four major themes, with graduate students receiving both broad training and a clear concentration on specific research issues. One major theme focuses on developing a better specification of the cues and perceptual principles responsible for the perception of speech. A second theme evaluates general perceptual principles, especially those underlying music. A third theme, motivated by some of our applied work on military sonar operations, evaluates the abilities of human listeners to perceive aspects of natural acoustic events, the stimulus properties used by listeners for such identification, and procedures for improving listening skills. The fourth theme evaluates the nature, processing, and integration of features in the perception of speech and music stimuli. These four themes are synergistic research and training efforts, and all have practical applications that periodically are used in applied settings.
Graduate training needs to be an interactive immersion into all aspect of professional activities. It is important that, throughout one's graduate career, each student actively participate (with increasing responsibility) in the discussion of proposed and completed research, the preparation of manuscripts and grants, the revision of manuscripts and grants in response to reviews, the supervision and training of undergraduates and less senior graduate students, and ultimately having primary responsibility for all of these professional activities. In addition to solid training in basic research, graduate students in the laboratory sometimes receive applied training on internships, and some have accepted solid positions in industry.
Pastore, R.E., Gaston, J.R., and Berens, M.S. (under review). Backward Recognition Masking as a General Type of Interference in Needed Post-Stimulus Processing. Perception & Psychophyics.
Pastore, R.E., Flint, J.D., Gaston, J.R., & Solomon, M.J. (in press). Auditory Event Perception: The Source-Perception Loop for Posture in Human Gait, Perception & Psychophysics.
Berens, M.S., & Pastore, R.E. (2005) Contextual relative temporal duration judgment: An investigation of sequence interruptions. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 102-119.
Pastore, R.E., Crawley, E.W., Berens, M.S., & Skelly, M. (2003) Nonparametric A' and other modern misconceptions about signal detection theory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 10, 556-569.
Crawley, E.J., Acker-Mills, B.E., Pastore, R.E., & Weil, S. (2002). Change detection in multi-voice music: The role of musical structure, musical training, and task demands. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 367-378.
