Electives

Elective subjects currently offered by Program faculty include:

Laboratory on the Physiology Acoustics and Perception of Speech HST.712
Signal Processing by the Auditory System: Perception HST.716
Physiology of the Ear HST.720
Brain Mechanisms of Hearing and Speech HST.722 [course website]
Molecular Biology of the Auditory System HST.730
Modeling Issues in Hearing and Speech HST.750
Biomedical Signal and Image Processing HST.582
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Acquisition and Analysis HST.583
Sensory-Neural Systems: Spatial Orientation HST.587
Music Perception and Cognition HST.725
The Lexicon and its Features HST.781
Speech and Audio Processing HST.729
Automatic Speech Recognition 6.345

Some of the most relevant electives offered outside the Program include:

HST courses:
Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues
Sensory and Motor Systems
Principles of Medical Imaging
Spatial Aspects of NMR Spectroscopy
Biological Control Systems
Neuroscience

EECS courses at MIT:
Psychoacoustic Project Laboratory
Two-Dimensional Signal and Image Processing
Stochastic Processes, Detection and Estimation
Discrete-time Signal Processing
Discrete Stochastic Processes

Biology courses at MIT:
Genetics
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Cell and Developmental Biology
Cellular Neurobiology

Neuroscience courses at HMS:
Experimental Neuroscience
Neurophysiology of Central Circuits
Neuropharmacology

Brain and Cognitive Sciences Courses at MIT:
The Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Cognitive Neuroscience
Genetic Neurobiology
Psycholinguistics
Language Processing
Introduction to Neural Networks

Linguistics Courses at MIT:
Language and its Structure: Phonology
Introduction to Phonology
Advanced Phonology
Linguistic Phonetics
Topics in Experimental Phonology
Neurolinguistics

All course offerings at MIT and Harvard:

MIT Course Catalog
Harvard FAS Course Catalog

Prospective Students

Current Students