Dr Kirk N. Olsen

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology
Associate Member and Centre Manager: Research and Engagement,
Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise and Training
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
kirk.olsen(at)mq.edu.au

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Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), Western Sydney University, Australia, 2011
• Bachelor of Psychology (Hons), Western Sydney University, Australia, 2008

Brief Biography

• My primary position at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, is a postdoctoral researcher on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project investigating the social, psychological, and neurological implications of violent music. I am also Centre Manager: Research and Engagement of the Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training; Research Manager of the Music, Sound, and Performance Research Group; and Web Developer for the Department of Psychology.
• I began my academic career by conducting psychoacoustic research on loudness dynamics and time-series modelling of continuous perceptual and affective responses to music as it unfolds through time (2010-2016). More recent work is focused on violence in music; the psychosocial outcomes of harmonious and obsessive passion in music fans; the neuroscience of creativity in the context of music performance; and auditory attention and motion perception in the context of spatial hearing.
  

Specific Research Interests

• Social, psychological, and neurological implications of violent music
• Psychosocial outcomes of harmonious and obsessive passion in music fans
• The neuroscience of musical creativity
  
• Auditory looming, attention, and spatial localisation
  
• Real-time approaches to emotion and music
• Modelling continuous loudness in response to musical dynamics

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