Snyder

Faculty

Joel Snyder, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Program:

Experimental

Lab:

http://faculty.unlv.edu/jsnyder/

Email:

joel.snyder@unlv.edu

Phone:

(702) 895-4692

Accepting Gratuate Students 2008-2009: YES

Research Interests

Joel Snyder investigates auditory and visual perception and cognition. Research questions include: How do listeners perceive objects and events in complex environments, such as a crowded party or a forest filled with many plants and animals? Furthermore, how does the ability to perceive in such situations change during normal aging, and how is this ability impacted by mental illness? His research employs the measurement techniques of experimental psychology (perceptual judgments and sensory-motor tasks) and cognitive neuroscience (event-related brain potentials, magnetoencephalography, and structural magnetic resonance imaging). Specific topics of research are: 1) auditory scene analysis, 2) perception and production of musical rhythm, 3) comparison of auditory and visual perceptual organization, 4) effects of aging on auditory processing, and 5) auditory abnormalities in schizophrenia.

Dr. Snyder teaches Sensation and Perception and Cognitive Science. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Cornell University in 2003.

Selected Publications

Snyder, J. S., Carter, O. L., Lee, S. -K., Hannon, E. E., & Alain, C. (in press). Effects of context on auditory stream segregation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Snyder, J. S., & Alain, C. (2007b). Toward a neurophysiological theory of auditory stream segregation. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 780-799.

Alain, C., Snyder, J. S., He, Y., & Reinke, K. S. (2007). Changes in auditory cortex parallel rapid perceptual learning. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1074-1084.

Snyder, J. S., & Alain, C. (2007a). Sequential auditory scene analysis is preserved in normal aging adults. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 501-512.

Snyder, J. S., Hannon, E. E., Large, E. W., & Christiansen, M. H. (2006). Synchronization and continuation tapping to complex meters. Music Perception, 24, 135-146.

Alain, C., Dyson, B. J., & Snyder, J. S. (2006). Aging and the perceptual organization of sounds: A change of scene? In P. M. Conn (Ed.), Handbook of models for the study of human aging (pp. 759-770). New York: Elsevier Academic Press.

Snyder, J. S., Alain, C., & Picton, T. W. (2006). Effects of attention on neuroelectric correlates of auditory stream segregation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1-13.

Snyder, J. S., & Large, E. W. (2005). Gamma-band activity reflects the metric structure of rhythmic tone sequences. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 117-126.