Peter Cariani

Senior Research Scientist, Hearing Research Center, Boston University
Clinical Instructor in Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School

Email: cariani@bu.edu
Website: http://www.cariani.com

Biographical Info: Peter Cariani (B.S. 1978, biology MIT, 1978, M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1989 systems science Binghamton University; URL: www.cariani.com) has a broad scientific and philosophical interests and has worked on a wide range of scientific and philosophical problems: aging in nematodes, computer modeling of protein folding, spinal cord regeneration, theoretical biology/biological cybernetics, biosemiotics, epistemology of self-modifying systems, neural basis of consciousness, auditory neurophysiology, neural coding of pitch in the auditory system, auditory scene analysis, neural timing nets, and music perception. Dr. Cariani is currently a Senior Research Scientist in the Hearing Research Center at Boston University and Clinical Instructor in Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School. He teaches courses related to auditory neuroscience and the neuropsychology of music at Harvard, MIT, and Boston University.