Edited Book

• Thompson, W. F., & Olsen, K. N. (Eds.). (2021). The science and psychology of music: From Beethoven at the office to Beyoncé at the gym. California, USA: Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO.
  

Peer-Reviewed Publications (Click Links for Full-Text*)

• Powell, M., Olsen, K. N., Davidson, J. W. & Thompson, W. F. (submitted). Understanding the attraction to music containing violent themes: A qualitative analysis.

• Quan, Y., Lo, C. Y., Olsen, K. N., & Thompson, W. F. (submitted). The effectiveness of aerobic exercise and dance interventions on cognitive function in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: An overview of meta-analyses.

• Chilvers, A., Quan, Y., Olsen, K. N., & Thompson, W. F. (in press). The effects of cultural source sensitivity on music appreciation. Psychology of Music. (Accepted July 4, 2023)

 

• Quan, Y., Olsen, K. N., Ma, W., & Thompson, W. F. (in press). Openness to world music predicts international students’ adaptation to a new culture. Empirical Musicology Review. (Accepted April 5, 2023).

 

• Powell, M., Olsen, K. N., Vallerand, R. J., & Thompson, W. F. (2023). Passion, music, and psychological well-being. Musicae Scientiae (Advanced Online Publication).

 

• Powell, M., Olsen, K. N., & Thompson, W. F. (2023). Music, pleasure, and meaning: The Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motivations for Music (HEMM) scale. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, 5157.

 

• Carr, N. R., Olsen, K. N., & Thompson, W. F. (2023). The perceptual and emotional consequences of articulation in music. Music Perception, 40, 202-219.

 

• Li, M. G., Olsen, K. N., Davidson, J. W., & Thompson, W. F. (2023). Rich intercultural music engagement enhances cultural understanding: The impact of learning a musical instrument outside of one's lived experience. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, 1919.

 

• Kim, D., Wiggins, M. W., Porte, M., Bayl-Smith, P., Curby, K. M., Olsen, K. N., & Taylor, M. (2023). Virtual reality lifeguarding scenarios as a potential training solution for pool lifeguards. Applied Ergonomics, 108, 103954.

 

• Olsen, K. N., Terry, J. & Thompson, W. F. (2023). Psychosocial risks and benefits of exposure to heavy metal music with aggressive themes: Current theory and evidence. Current Psychology, 42, 21133–21150.
  

 

• Powell, M., Olsen, K. N., Vallerand, R. J., & Thompson, W. F. (2022). Passion for violently themed music and psychological well-being: A survey analysis. Behavioral Sciences, 12, 486.

   

• Powell, M., Olsen, K. N., & Thompson, W. F. (2022). Morbid curiosity for music containing violent themes. Personality and Individual Differences, 197, 111797. 

 

• Powell, M., Olsen, K. N., & Thompson, W. F. (2022). Does music help regulate depressive symptoms for fans of violently themed music? Psychology of Music, 50, 1296-1311.

 

• Olsen, K. N., Powell, M., Anic, A., Vallerand, R. J., & Thompson, W. F. (2022). Fans of violent music: The role of passion in positive and negative emotional experience. Musicae Scientiae, 26, 364-387.

   

• Slade, A., Olsen, K. N., & Thompson, W. F. (2021). An investigation of empathy in male and female fans of aggressive music. Musicae Scientiae, 25, 189-211.

 

• Anic, A., Olsen, K. N., & Thompson, W. F. (2020). Investigating the role of the primary motor cortex in musical creativity: A transcranial direct current stimulation study. In P. Fine, A. Danek, K. Friedlander, I. Hocking & W. Thompson (eds.), Novel approaches for studying creativity in creative cognition, artistic performance and artistic production, (pp. 213-222), Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A.

   

• Herff, S. A., Olsen, K. N., Anic, A., & Schaal, N. K. (2019). Investigating cumulative disruptive interference in memory for melodies, words, and pictures. New Ideas in Psychology, 55, 68-77.

   

• Thompson, W. F., Geeves, A. M., & Olsen, K. N. (2019). Who enjoys listening to violent music and why? Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8, 218-232.

 

• Anic, A., Olsen, K. N., & Thompson, W. F. (2018). Investigating the role of the primary motor cortex in musical creativity: A transcranial direct current stimulation study. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1758.

 

• Thompson, W. F., & Olsen, K. N. (2018). On the enjoyment of violence and aggression in music. Physics of Life Reviews, 25, 128-130.

   

• Olsen, K. N., Thompson, W. F., & Giblin, I. (2018). Listener expertise enhances intelligibility of vocalizations in Death Metal music. Music Perception, 35, 527-539.

     

• Herff, S. A., Olsen, K. N., & Dean, R. T. (2018). Resilient memory for melodies: The number of intervening melodies does not influence novel melody recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 1150–
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• Herff, S. A., Olsen, K. N., Dean, R. T., & Prince, J. B. (2018). Memory for melodies in unfamiliar tuning systems: Investigating effects of recency and number of intervening items. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 1367-1381.

     

• Herff, S. A., Olsen, K. N., Prince, J. B., & Dean, R. T. (2018). Interference in memory for pitch-only and rhythm-only sequences. Musicae Scientiae, 22, 344-361.

 

• McCarthy, L., & Olsen, K. N. (2017). A 'looming bias' in spatial hearing? Effects of acoustic intensity and spectrum on categorical sound source localization. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 79, 352-362.

 

• Herff, S. A., Dean, R. T., & Olsen, K. N. (2017). Inter-rater agreement in memory for melody as a measure of listeners' similarity in music perception. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 27, 297–311.

 

• Anic, A., Thompson, W. F., & Olsen, K. N. (2017). Stimulation of the primary motor cortex enhances creativity and technical fluency of piano improvisations. In P. M. C. Harrison (Ed.). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus17), London, UK, September 13-15, 2017.

 

• Olsen, K. N., Dean, R. T., & Leung, Y. (2016). What constitutes a phrase in sound-based music? A mixed methods investigation of perception and acoustics. PLoS ONE, 11, e0167643.

 

• Olsen, K. N., & Dean, R. T. (2016). Does perceived exertion influence perceived affect in response to music? Investigating the 'FEELA' hypothesis. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 26, 257-269.

 

• Olsen, K. N., & Herff, S. A. (2015). The effects of acoustic intensity, spectrum, and duration on global loudness change. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 101, 1094-1104.

 

• Olsen, K. N., Dean, R. T., Stevens, C. J., & Bailes, F. (2015). Both acoustic intensity and loudness contribute to time-series models of perceived affect in music. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 25, 124-137.

 

• Gibert, G., Olsen, K. N., Leung, Y., & Stevens, C. J. (2015). Transforming an embodied conversational agent into an efficient talking head: From keyframe-based animation to multimodal concatenation synthesis. Computational Cognitive Science, 1, 1-12.

 

• Olsen, K. N. (2014). Loudness and intensity. In W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia (pp. 654-657). New York: Sage Publications.

 

• Olsen, K. N. (2014). Intensity dynamics and loudness change: A review of methods and perceptual processes. Acoustics Australia, 42, 159-165.

 

• Olsen, K. N., Dean, R. T., & Stevens, C. J. (2014). A continuous measure of musical engagement contributes to prediction of perceived arousal and valence. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 24, 147-156.

 

• Olsen, K. N., Stevens, C. J., Dean, R. T., & Bailes, F. (2014). Continuous loudness response to acoustic intensity dynamics in melodies: Effects of melodic contour, tempo, and tonality. Acta Psychologica, 149, 117-128. 

 

• Dean, R. T., Olsen, K. N., & Bailes, F. (2013). Is there a ‘rise-fall temporal archetype’ of intensity in the music of Joseph Haydn? The role of the performer. Music Performance Research, 6, 39-67. 

 

• Olsen, K. N., & Stevens, C. J. (2013). Psychophysiological response to acoustic intensity change in a musical chord. Journal of Psychophysiology, 27, 16-26. 

 

• Olsen, K. N., & Stevens, C. J. (2012). Forward masking of dynamic acoustic intensity: Effects of intensity region and end-level. Perception, 41, 594-605. 

 

• Thompson, W. F., Peter, V., Olsen, K. N., & Stevens, C. J. (2012). The effect of intensity on relative pitch. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 2054-2072.

 

• Olsen, K. N. (2011). Perceptual bias and loudness change: An investigation of memory, masking, and psychophysiology (PhD Dissertation), University of Western Sydney, Australia.  

 

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

 

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

 

• Kehoe, E. J., Bednall, T. C., Yin, L., Olsen, K. N., Pitts, C., Henry, J. D., et al. (2009). Training adult novices to use computers with and without illustrations. Computers in Human Behavior, 25, 275-283. 

 

• Kehoe, E. J., Olsen, K. N., Ludvig, E. A., & Sutton, R. S. (2009). Scalar timing varies with response magnitude in classical conditioning of the nictitating membrane response of the rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, 212-217.

 

• Olsen, K. N., Stevens, C. J., & Tardieu, J. (2007). A perceptual bias for increasing loudness: Loudness change and its role in music and mood. In E. Schubert, K. Buckley, R. Eliott, B. Koboroff, J. Chen & C. Stevens (Eds.), Proceedings of the Inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science, (pp. 111-114), University of New South Wales: HCSNet (ISBN: 978-1-74108-161-9).
  
  

• Dudeney, J. E., Olsen, K. N., & Kehoe, E. J. (2007). Time-specific extinction and recovery of the rabbit's (Oryctolagus cuniculus) conditioned nictitating membrane response using mixed interstimulus intervals. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 808-813.

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