Kirk N. Olsen

Username: Kirk N. Olsen

Participant details

	Network Member	Kirk Olsen
	Organisation/Institution	University of Western Sydney
	Department/Centre	MARCS Auditory Laboratories
	Lab	MARCS Auditory Laboratories
	Website	http://marcs.uws.edu.au/?q=people/kirk-olsen
	Research area	Auditory Perception Music Perception
	Research keywords	Auditory Psychophysics, Intensity Dynamics, Loudness, Auditory Looming, Music Perception and Cognition

Research Interests

My past research has investigated a 'perceptual bias' for looming auditory motion in a simple musical context. This bias is an overestimation of loudness change for tones that increase in intensity, relative to those that decrease in intensity. I am currently interested in (1) the sensory and cognitive mechanisms that underpin this perceptual overestimation; and (2) how a 'perceptual bias' to rising intensity stimuli manifests in the perception of musical dynamics (e.g., crescendos vs. diminuendos).

Representative Publications

Olsen, K. N., Stevens C., & Tardieu J. (2010). Loudness change in response to dynamic acoustic intensity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 1631-1644

Olsen, K. N., & Stevens C. J. (2010). Perceptual overestimation of rising intensity: Is stimulus continuity necessary? Perception, 39, 695-704.

Publications page: http://kirkolsen.weebly.com/publications.html

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