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: