Professor Catherine Stevens
PROFESSOR,
Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Sydney
- BA University of Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP
Contact
| Email: | kj.stevens@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6324 6324 |
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| Location: | 1.G.132 Bankstown1.G.132 Bankstown |
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Biography
As a cognitive psychologist, I apply experimental methods to study cognition of complex auditory and temporal phenomena. Doctoral research investigated musical training and pattern recognition in human listeners and artificial neural network models (Stevens & Latimer, 1992, 1997). Postdoctoral research at the University of Queensland included novel application of simple recurrent networks to temporal, musical prediction tasks (Stevens & Wiles, 1994). In experimental research, students, colleagues and I investigate general mechanisms operating in the recognition of music (Brennan & Stevens, 2002; McAuley, Stevens & Humphreys, 2004; Stevens & Gallagher, 2004; Olsen, Stevens & Tardieu, 2007) and auditory signals (Coward & Stevens, 2004; Keller & Stevens, 2004; Perry et al. 2007). Research into choreographic cognition has led to theorising and experimentation on embodied cognition and memory for movement.
As Deputy Director of MARCS (1999-2007), I coordinated two successful LIEF grant applications awarded to UWS, and to the Universities of NSW, Sydney and Canberra. The first established a Movement Analysis Lab incorporating Peak Motus, Optotrak, PowerLab facilities, and a custom-designed portable Audience Response Facility. The second provided infrastructure for multimodal recording and analysis. With Robert Dale and Denis Burnham, Kate co-convenes the ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science (HCSNet).
This information has been contributed by Professor Stevens.
Publications
Books
- Dale, R., Burnham, D. and Stevens, C. (2011), 'Human Communication Science: A Compendium', : The ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science 9781741383638.
- Stevens, C., Schubert, E., Kruithof, B., Buckley, K. and Fazio, S. (2009), 'Proceedings of International Conference on Music Communication Science ICoMCS2', : HCSNet 9781741082036.
- Schubert, E., Stevens, C., Buckley, K., Eliott, R., Koboroff, B. and Chen, J. (2007), 'Proceedings of the Inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science', : Causal Pty Ltd 9781741081619.
- Grove, R., Stevens, C. and Mckechnie, S. (2005), 'Thinking in Four Dimensions: Creativity and Cognition in Contemporary Dance', : Melbourne University Press 0552851444.
- Stevens, C., Burnham, D., Mcpherson, G., Schubert, E. and Renwick, J. (2002), 'Proceedings of the 7th Interntaional Conference on Music Perception & Cognition', : Causal Productions 1876346396.
Chapters in Books
- Stevens, C., Schubert, E., Haszard Morris, R., Frear, M., Chen, J., Healey, S., Schoknecht, C. and Hansen, S. (2011), 'Cognition and the Temporal Arts: Investigating Audience Response to Dance Using PDAs That Record Continuous Data During Live Performance30', Human Communication Science: A Compendium, ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science 9781741383638.
- Mckechnie, S. and Stevens, C. (2009), 'Visible Thought: Choreographic cognition in creating, performing, and watching contemporary dance', Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader, Routledge 9780415490870.
- Mckechnie, S. and Stevens, C. (2009), 'Knowledge Unspoken: Contemporary Dance and the Cycle of Practice-led Research, Basic and Applied Research, and Research-led Practice', Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts, Edinburgh University Press 9780748636297.
- Wilkie, S., Stevens, C. and Dean, R. (2008), 'Psychoacoustic manipulation of the sound induced illusory flash', Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Sense of Sounds, Springer 9783540850342.
- Stevens, C. and Byron, T. (2008), 'Universals in Music Processing', The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology, Oxford University Press 9780199298457.
- Stevens, C. (2008), 'It's About Time! Perceiving events and acquiring expectancies', Psychology: Australian and New Zealand Edition, Wiley 9780470813478.
- Stevens, C. (2006), 'One Step Further: It's about time! Perceiving events and the role of expectancies', Psychology: Australian and New Zealand Edition, John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd 9780470805527.
- Stevens, C. (2005), 'Trans-disciplinary Approaches to Research into Creation, Performance, and Appreciation of Contemporary Dance', Thinking in Four Dimensions: Creativity and Cognition in Contemporary Dance, Melbourne University Press 0552851452.
- Stevens, C. (2005), 'Chronology of Creating A Dance: Anna Smith's Red Rain', Thinking in Four Dimensions: Creativity and Cognition in Contemporary Dance, Melbourne University Press 0552851452.
- Stevens, C. and Mckechnie, S. (2005), 'Minds and motion: Dynamical systems in choreography, creativity, and dance', Tanz im Kopf: Yearbook 15 of the German Dance Research Society, German Dance Research Society 382588712X.
- Stevens, C. (2001), 'Neural networks', Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers .
Journal Articles
- Schultz, B., Stevens, C., Keller, P. and Tillmann, B. (2013), 'The implicit learning of metrical and nonmetrical temporal patterns', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 21.
- Olsen, K. and Stevens, C. (2013), 'Psychophysiological response to acoustic intensity change in a musical chord', Journal of Psychophysiology, 11.
- Stevens, C. and Keller, P. (2013), 'The implicit learning of metrical and nonmetrical temporal patterns', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 21.
- Stevens, C., Keller, P. and Tyler, M. (2013), 'Tonal language background and detecting pitch contour in spoken and musical items', Psychology of Music, 16.
- Leung, A. and Stevens, C. (2013), 'Control of speech-related facial movements of an avatar from video', Speech Communication, 12.
- Mubin, O. and Stevens, C. (2013), 'A review of the applicability of robots in education', Technology for Education and Learning, 7.
- Blasing, B., Calva-Merino, B., Cross, E., Jola, C., Honisch, J. and Stevens, C. (2012), 'Neurocognitive control in dance perception and performance', Acta Psychologica, 9.
- Broughton, M. and Stevens, C. (2012), 'Analyzing expressive qualities in movement and stillness: Effort-shape analyses of solo marimbists' bodily expression', Music Perception, 19.
- Stevens, C. (2012), 'Music Perception and Cognition: A review of recent cross-cultural research', Topics in Cognitive Science, 15.
- Olsen, K. and Stevens, C. (2012), 'Forward masking of dynamic acoustic intensity: Effects of intensity region and end-level', Perception, 12.
- Brandon, M., Terry, J., Stevens, C. and Tillmann, B. (2012), 'Incidental learning of temporal structures conforming to a metrical framework', Frontiers in Psychology, 10.
- Thompson, W., Varghese, P., Olsen, K., Olsen, K. and Stevens, C. (2012), 'The effect of intensity on relative pitch', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 19.
- Bailes, F., Bishop, L., Stevens, C. and Dean, R. (2012), 'Mental imagery for musical changes in loudness', Frontiers in Psychology, .
- Broughton, M. and Stevens, C. (2012), 'Analyzing expressive qualities in movement and stillness : effort-shape analyses of solo marimbists' bodily expression', Music Perception, 19.
- Thompson, W., Peter, V. and Stevens, C. (2012), 'The effect of intensity on relative pitch', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 19.
- Olsen, K. and Stevens, C. (2012), 'Forward masking of dynamic acoustic intensity : effects of intensity region and end-level', Perception, 12.
- Brandon, M., Terry, J., Stevens, C. and Tillmann, B. (2012), 'Incidental learning of temporal structures conforming to a metrical framework', Frontiers in Psychology, 10.
- Au, A., Marozeau, J., Innes-Brown, H., Schubert, E. and Stevens, C. (2012), 'Music for the cochlear implant : audience response to six commissioned Compositions', Seminars in Hearing, 11.
- Stevens, C. (2012), 'Music perception and cognition : a review of recent cross-cultural research', Topics in Cognitive Science, 15.
- Blasing, B., Calvo-Merino, B., Cross, E., Jola, C., Honisch, J. and Stevens, C. (2012), 'Neurocognitive control in dance perception and performance', Acta Psychologica, 9.
- Bailes, F., Bishop, L., Stevens, C. and Dean, R. (2012), 'Mental imagery for musical changes in loudness', Frontiers in Psychology, .
- Stevens, C., Ginsborg, J. and Lester, G. (2011), 'Backwards and Forwards in Space and Time: Recalling Dance Movement from Long-Term Memory', Memory Studies, 17.
- Tillmann, B., Stevens, C. and Keller, P. (2011), 'Learning of timing patterns and the development of temporal expectations', Psychological Research, 16.
- Stevens, C., Ginsborg, J. and Lester, G. (2011), 'Backwards and forwards in space and time: Recalling dance movement from long-term memory', Memory Studies, 17.
- Wachowicz, F., Stevens, C. and Byron, T. (2011), 'Effects of balance cues and experience on serial recall of human movement', Dance Research, 19.
- Stevens, C., Winskel, H., Howell, C., Vidal, L., Latimer, C. and Milne-Home, J. (2010), 'Perceiving Dance: Schematic Expectations Guide Experts' Scanning of a Contemporary Dance Film', Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, 7.
- Olsen, K. and Stevens, C. (2010), 'Perceptual overestimation of rising intensity: Is stimulus continuity necessary?', Perception, 10.
- Olsen, K., Stevens, C. and Tardieu, J. (2010), 'Loudness Change in Response to Dynamic Acoustic Intensity', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14.
- Tillmann, B., Stevens, C., Keller, P. and Keller, P. (2010), 'Learning of timing patterns and the development of temporal expectations', Psychological Research, 16.
- Okazaki, Y., Abrahamyan, A., Stevens, C. and Ioannides, I. (2010), 'Wired for her face? Male attentional bias for female faces', Brain Topography, 13.
- Stevens, C., Brennan, D., Petocz, A. and Howell, C. (2009), 'Designing informative warning signals: Effects of indicator type, modality, and task demand on recognition speed and accuracy', Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 7.
- Stevens, C., Schubert, E., Wang, S., Kroos, C. and Halovic, S. (2009), 'Moving with and without Music: Scaling and Lapsing in Time in the Performance of Contemporary Dance', Music Perception, 14.
- Stevens, C., Schubert, E., Hazard Morris, R., Frear, M., Chen, J., Healey, S., Schoknecht, C. and Hansen, S. (2009), 'Cognition and the temporal arts: Investigating audience response to dance using PDAs that record continuous data during live performance', International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 14.
- Okazaki, Y., Abrahamyan, A., Stevens, C. and Ioannides, A. (2009), 'Wired for Her Face? Male Attentional Bias for Female Faces', Brain Topography, 13.
- Opacic, T., Stevens, C. and Tillmann, B. (2009), 'Unspoken Knowledge: Implicit learning of structured human dance movement', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition., 8.
- Broughton, M. and Stevens, C. (2009), 'Music, movement and marimba: An investigation of the role of movement and gesture in communicating musical expression to an audience', Psychology of Music, 17.
- Petocz, A., Keller, P. and Stevens, C. (2008), 'Auditory Warnings, Signal-Referent Relations, and Natural Indicators: Re-thinking theory and application', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14.
- Okazaki, Y., Abrahamyan, A., Stevens, C. and Ioannides, A. (2008), 'The timing of face selectivity and attentional modulation in visual processing', Neuroscience, 15.
- Broughton, M. and Stevens, C. (2008), 'Music, movement and marimba: An investigation of the role of movement and gesture in communicating music expression to an audience', Psychology of Music, 17.
- Stevens, C., Walker, G., Boyer, M. and Gallagher, M. (2007), 'Severe tinnitus and its effect on selective and divided attention', International Journal of Audiology, 9.
- Stevens, C. and Byron, T. (2007), 'Book Review: Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation', Music Perception, 4.
- Jones, C., Berry, L. and Stevens, C. (2007), 'Synthesised speech intelligibility and persuasion: Speech rate and non-native listeners', Computer Speech & Language, 11.
- Perry, N., Stevens, C., Wiggins, M. and Howell, C. (2007), 'Cough once for danger: An experimental investigation of auditory icons as informative warning signals in civil aviation', Human Factors, 11.
- Wilkie, S. and Stevens, C. (2007), 'Psychoacoustic variables for temporal manipulation of the sound Induced Illusory Flash', Australasian Computer Music Conference. Proceedings, 6.
- Rossiter, S., Stevens, C. and Walker, G. (2006), 'Tinnitus and its effect on working memory and attention', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 11.
- Schubert, E. and Stevens, C. (2006), 'The effect of implied harmony, contour and musical expertise on judgments of similarity of familiar melodies', Journal of New Music Research, 14.
- Stevens, C., Lees, N., Vonwiller, J. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'On-line experimental methods to evaluate text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis: effects of voice gender and signal quality on intelligibility, naturalness and preference', Computer Speech & Language, 18.
- Schellenberg, E., Bigand, E., Poulin-Charronnat, B., Garnier, C. and Stevens, C. (2005), 'Children's implicit knowledge of harmony in Western music', Developmental Science, 16.
- Stevens, C. and Mckechnie, S. (2005), 'Thinking in action: thought made visible in contemporary dance', Cognitive Processing, 10.
- Coward, S. and Stevens, C. (2004), 'Extracting meaning from sound: Nomic mappings, everyday listening and perceiving object size afrom frequency', Psychological Record, 16.
- Keller, P. and Stevens, C. (2004), 'Meaning from environmental sounds: types of signal-referent relations and their effect on recognizing auditory icons', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 10.
- Stevens, C. (2004), 'Cross-cultural studies of musical pitch and time', Acoustical Science and Technology, 6.
- Mcauley, J., Stevens, C. and Humphreys, M. (2004), 'Play it again: did this melody occur more frequently or was it heard more recently? The role of stimulus familiarity in episodic recognition of music', Acta Psychologica, 16.
- Stevens, C. and Gallagher, M. (2004), 'The development of mental models for auditory events: Relational complexity and discrimination of pitch and duration', British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15.
- Stevens, C., Malloch, S., Mckechnie, S. and Steven, N. (2003), 'Choreographic cognition: The time-couse and phenomnology of creating a dance.', Pragmatics & Cognition, 31.
- Wiggins, M., Stevens, C., Howard, A., Henley, I. and O'Hare, D. (2002), 'Expert, intermediate and novice performance during simulated pre-flight decision-making', Australian Journal of Psychology, 6.
- Brennan, D. and Stevens, C. (2002), 'Analytical listening and veridical perception by pipe organists', Acta Psychologica, 14.
- Stevens, C., Malloch, S. and Mckechnie, S. (2001), 'Moving Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Contemporary Dance', Brolga, 13.
- Stevens, C. and Keller, P. (2001), 'Detecting contour in short spoken and musical items: A comparison of speakers from tonal and non-tonal languages', Journal of Music Perception and Cognition, 11.
Conference Papers
- Gibert, G. and Stevens, C. (2011), 'Control of speech related facial movements of an avatar from video', 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Stevens, C., Gibert, G., Leung, A. and Zhang, Z. (2011), 'A Flexible Dual Task Paradigm for Evaluating an Embodied Conversational Agent: Modality Effects and Reaction Time as an Index of Cognitive Load', 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Ferguson, S., Schubert, E. and Stevens, C. (2010), 'Movement in a contemporary dance work and its relation to continuous emotional response', New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2010 (NIME), Sydney, Australia.
- Gibert, G., Fordyce, A. and Stevens, C. (2010), 'Role of form and motion information in auditory-visual speech perception of McGurk combinations and fusions', 9th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Japan.
- Herath, D., Kroos, C., Stevens, C., Cavedon, L. and Premaratne, P. (2010), 'Thinking Head: Towards Human Centred Robotics', 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision. ICARCV2010, Singapore.
- Stevens, C. and Petocz, A. (2009), 'The User Knows: Considering the Cognitive Contribution of the User in the Design of Auditory Warnings', 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, San Diego, California, USA.
- Mcdougall, S., Forsythe, A., Isherwood, S., Petocz, A., Reppa, I. and Stevens, C. (2009), 'The Use of Multimodal Representation in Icon Interpretation', HCI International Conference, San Diego, California, USA.
- Olsen, K. and Stevens, C. (2009), 'Perceptual overestimation of rising intensity: Is stimulus continuity necessary', The Second International Conference on Music Communication Science, Sydney.
- Stevens, C., Vincs, K. and Schubert, E. (2009), 'Measuring audience response on-line: An evaluation of the portable audience response facility (pARF)', The Second International Conference on Music Communication Science, Sydney.
- Vincs, K., Schubert, E. and Stevens, C. (2009), 'Measuring Responses to Dance. Is there a 'grammar' of dance', World Dance Alliance Global Summit 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
- Schubert, E., Vincs, K. and Stevens, C. (2009), 'A Quantitative Approach to Analysing Reliability of Engagement Responses to Dance', World Dance Alliance Global Summit 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
- Stevens, C., Winskel, H., Howell, C., Vidal, L., Milne-Home, J. and Latimer, C. (2009), 'Direct and Indirect Methods for Measuring Audience Reactions to Contemporary Dance', World Dance Alliance Global Summit 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
- Broughton, M. and Stevens, C. (2009), 'Physical movement and imagery in professional and undergraduate student solo marimba practice', International Symposium on Performance Science 2009, Auckland,New Zealand.
- Stevens, C., Ginsborg, J. and Lester, G. (2009), 'Moving backwards and forwards in time: Recalling dance from long-term memory', International Symposium on Performance Science 2009, Auckland,New Zealand.
- Gibert, G., Pruzinec, M., Schultz, T. and Stevens, C. (2009), 'Enhancement of Human Computer Interaction with Facial Electromygraphic Sensors', OZCHI 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
- Schubert, E., Stevens, C. and Ferguson, S. (2009), 'The relationship between lapsing and scaling: Explaining timing variations in a contemporary dance performance', 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, Sydney, Australia.
- Vincs, K., Stevens, C. and Schubert, E. (2009), 'Effects of observer experience on continuous measures of engagement with a contemporary dance work', 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, Sydney, Australia.
- Broughton, M. and Stevens, C. (2008), 'It's Not Just About Sound: Investigting Marimba Performance as an Auditory and Visual Experience', 8th Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference 2007, Canberra, Australia.
- Broughton, M., Stevens, C. and Schubert, E. (2008), 'Continuous self-report of engagement to live solo marimba performance', 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.
- Stevens, C. and Schubert, E. (2008), 'Music perception and cognition research in Australia', 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.
- Chang, S., Stevens, C., Schubert, E., Iwamiya, S., Kim, K., Zhang, Q., Zhou, S. and Chong, K. (2008), 'The latest research trends in Asia-Pacific region', 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.
- Stevens, C., Kroos, C., Halovic, S., Chen, J., Schubert, E., Tardieu, J., Paine, G. and + 2 Externals, . (2008), 'Analysis of Contemporary Dance Movement in the Presence and Absence of a Musical Soundscape', 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan.
- Powers, D., Leibbrandt, R., Pfitzner, D., Luerssen, M., Lewis, T., Abrahamyan, A. and Stevens, C. (2008), 'Language Teaching in a Mixed Reality Games Environment', 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Athens, Greece.
- Wilkie, S., Stevens, C. and Dean, R. (2008), 'Psychoacoustic manipulation of the sound-induced illusory flash', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), .
- Sazdov, R., Paine, G. and Stevens, C. (2007), 'Perceptual Investigation into Envelopment, Spatial Clarity, and Engulfment in Reproduced Multi-Channel Audio', AES 31st International Conference, London, England.
- Brennan, D. and Stevens, C. (2006), 'The effect of pitch, tempo and proportional pitch and tempo manipulation on memory of familiar musical excerpts', 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna.
- Broughton, M., Stevens, C. and Malloch, S. (2006), 'Music, movement and marimba: An investigation of the role of movement and gesture in communicating music expression to an audience', 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna.
- Byron, T. and Stevens, C. (2006), 'Steps and leaps in human memory for melodies: The effect of pitch interval magnitude in a melodic contour discrimination task', 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna.
- Stevens, C. and Ioannides, A. (2006), 'Perceptual motion: expectancies in movement perception and action', 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna.
- Schubert, E., Stevens, C., Healey, S. and Haszard-Morris, R. (2005), 'Perceptual structure in Fine Line Terrain', CEASS Conference: Scholarship and Community UWS 2005, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown.
- Stevens, C. (2005), 'Movement as thought: The challenge of contemporary dance for theories of memory', CEASS Conference: Scholarship and Community UWS 2005, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown.
- Stevens, C. (2005), 'Perceptual motion: Using entrainment and expectancy to differentiate cognitive processes involved in movement perception and action', APSCOM 2005, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Korea.
- Stevens, C. and Glass, R. (2005), 'Choreographic Cognition: Investigating the Psychological Processes involved in creating and responding to contemporary dance', Dance Rebooted: Initializing the Grid, Deakin University.
- Stevens, C., Brennan, D. and Parker, S. (2004), 'Simultaneous manipulation of parameters of auditory icons to convey direction, size, and distance: Effects on recognition and interpretation', International Conference on Audio Display, Sydney.
- Stevens, C., Keller, P. and Tyler, M. (2004), 'Language tonality and its effects on the perception of contour in short spoken and musical items', ICMPC8, Evanston, USA.
- Stevens, C. (2004), 'The effect of first language tonality on perception of pitch in speech and music', The 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan.
- Stevens, C., Brennan, D. and Parker, S. (2004), 'Multidimensional Coding of Auditory Icons', The 18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan.
- Stevens, C. and Mckechnie, S. (2004), 'Dancing between worlds: Trans-disciplinary approaches to cognition, creativity, & choreography', XVIII IAEA Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Lisbon.
- Stevens, C. and Gallagher, M. (2003), 'Relational complexity and transitive inference using pitch and duration', 5th Triennial European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music Conference, Hanover University of Music & Drama.
- Brennan, D. and Stevens, C. (2003), 'Perceived harmonic relationship between tone and tempo: the effect of timbre', 5th Triennial European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music Conference, Hanover University of Music & Drama.
- Stevens, C., Lees, N. and Vonwiller, J. (2003), 'Experimental tools to evaluate intelligibility of test-to-speech (TTS) synthesis: Effects of voice gender and Signal Quality', 8th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology (Eurospeech 2003), Geneva, Switzerland.
- Lees, N., Stevens, C. and Vonwiller, J. (2003), 'The effect of voice gender and signal quality on text-to-speech (TTS) intelligibility', 8th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (WESPAC8), Melbourne.
- Lees, N., Stevens, C. and Vonwiller, J. (2002), 'Implicit measurement of intelligibility of male and female voice text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis in noise using a phoneme detection task', Ninth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne.
Research
- Human Learning and Cognition
- Applied Cognition and Human Performance
This information has been contributed by Professor Stevens.
Current Projects
| Title: | Thinking Brains and Bodies: Distributed Cognition and Dynamic Memory in Australian Dance Theatre |
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| Years: | 2013-07-01 - |
| ID: | P00021317 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads: A Research Platform for Human Communication Science |
| Years: | 2006-10-31 - 2013-12-31 |
| ID: | P0015054 |
| UWS Researchers: | Denis Burnham, Catherine Stevens, Jorg Buchholz, Takaaki Kuratate, Garth Paine and Christine Kitamura |
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| Title: | Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing: AIRS [via Uni of Prince Edward Island - no funding to UWS] |
| Years: | 2009-04-01 - 2016-03-31 |
| ID: | P00016639 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Loudness moves! Roles of changing acoustic intensity in the perception of music |
| Years: | 2012-07-01 - 2015-06-30 |
| ID: | P00020122 |
| UWS Researchers: | Roger Dean, Catherine Stevens and Freya Bailes |
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Previous Projects
| Title: | Auditory Pattern Processing: Interaction of Pitch and Rhythm in Recognition of Speech and Music |
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| Years: | 1998-01-01 - 2000-12-30 |
| ID: | P0009368 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Correlates of recognition of body movement in dance |
| Years: | 2003-12-22 - 2006-07-31 |
| ID: | P0014308 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Movement and communication analysis lab and portable audience response facility |
| Years: | 2003-01-01 - 2003-12-31 |
| ID: | P0013634 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens, Stephen Malloch, Denis Burnham and Christine Kitamura |
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| Title: | Perception in Action: Neural & behavioural correlates of movement perception & imagery |
| Years: | 2003-09-15 - 2004-09-14 |
| ID: | P0013726 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Pitch Development |
| Years: | 2000-12-21 - 2002-03-30 |
| ID: | P0010946 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Encouragement Award |
| Years: | 2000-01-01 - 2001-12-31 |
| ID: | P0010958 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Tinnitus and its Effect on Attention and Memory |
| Years: | 2001-06-30 - 2002-06-30 |
| ID: | P0010490 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Text-to-Speech Synthesis: An Experimental Perceptual Analysis to Measure Intelligibility and Maximise Effectivenes |
| Years: | 2001-12-01 - 2002-12-31 |
| ID: | P0010728 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens and Denis Burnham |
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| Title: | The Dancing Brain: The effect of expertise on visual attention, muscle activity, and enjoyment of Australian contemporary dance |
| Years: | 2005-02-01 - 2006-06-05 |
| ID: | P0014491 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens and Jo Milne-Home |
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| Title: | Intention and Serendipity:Investigating Improvisation, Symbolism and Memory in Creating Australian Contemporary Dance |
| Years: | 2005-10-25 - 2009-06-30 |
| ID: | P0014561 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens and Jo Milne-Home |
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| Title: | Conceiving connections: Increasing industry viability through analysis of audience responses to dance performance [via UNIMELB] |
| Years: | 2002-02-25 - 2005-05-25 |
| ID: | P0012612 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens and Stephen Malloch |
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| Title: | Music cognition in infants, children and adults |
| Years: | 2004-01-06 - 2006-06-30 |
| ID: | P0012720 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens and Christine Kitamura |
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| Title: | Multidimensional coding of auditory icons |
| Years: | 2001-12-01 - 2002-08-31 |
| ID: | P0012354 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Potential of Auditory Icons to be used as Audio Warnings |
| Years: | 2003-01-02 - 2003-06-30 |
| ID: | P0012356 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | A Taxonomy for Auditory Warnings: Development and Experimental Validation |
| Years: | 1999-01-01 - 1999-12-31 |
| ID: | P0012402 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Investigation of the Effect of Severe Tinnitus on Attention and Memory |
| Years: | 2003-01-04 - 2004-01-31 |
| ID: | P0011704 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens and Gary Walker |
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| Title: | Time and Motion: Dynamical Systems in Creating and Performing Contemporary Dance |
| Years: | 2001-01-01 - 2001-12-31 |
| ID: | P0011876 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Testing the TAW: Experimental Validation of a Taxonomy of Auditory Warnings |
| Years: | 2000-01-01 - 2000-12-31 |
| ID: | P0011342 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Moving minds: Cognitive, muscular and neural correlates of perceived versus performed movement |
| Years: | 2004-02-16 - 2005-02-15 |
| ID: | P0011618 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | See Hear! Multimodal Recording and Analysis Facility |
| Years: | 2006-05-09 - 2011-12-31 |
| ID: | P0014825 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens, Roger Dean, Denis Burnham, Stephen Malloch, Garth Paine and Catherine Best |
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| Title: | Music, Arousal, and Mood: The Role of Loudness and Loudness Change in Cross-Cultural Music Perception |
| Years: | 2007-06-18 - 2010-12-31 |
| ID: | P0015117 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Expecting the Unexpected: Learning Complex Temporal and Rhythmic Relations |
| Years: | 2009-01-01 - 2013-06-30 |
| ID: | P0016051 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | A Pitch in Time: Investigation of Expectancies and Implicit Learning in Music Cognition |
| Years: | 2006-05-26 - 2012-12-01 |
| ID: | P0015162 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens, Denis Burnham and Catherine Best |
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| Title: | Expectations on the Line: Implicit vs. Explicit Knowledge of Melodic and Rhythmic Patterning |
| Years: | 2006-12-20 - 2008-01-03 |
| ID: | P0015399 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens and Catherine Best |
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| Title: | Perception and Action in Auditory Scenes (PAAS): Neural, Behavioural, Computational and Mechanical Systems |
| Years: | 2004-01-02 - 2004-11-30 |
| ID: | P0014230 |
| UWS Researchers: | Denis Burnham, Catherine Stevens, Stephen Malloch, Christine Kitamura, George Bryan, Carolyn Mcgregor, John Gal, Gu Fang, Marija Tabain and Mark Wiggins |
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| Title: | Fair Go Fair Share Fair Say Fair Content Pedagogies |
| Years: | 2001-10-25 - 2005-11-30 |
| ID: | P0010732 |
| UWS Researchers: | Geoff Munns and Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Auditory pattern recognition: The differential role of local and global pattern-attributes |
| Years: | 2000-01-01 - 2000-12-31 |
| ID: | P0012558 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens and Mark Wiggins |
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| Title: | AHAA! (Analysis of Human Articulate Activities): A Communicative Dynamics Research Facility |
| Years: | 2006-09-01 - 2007-08-31 |
| ID: | P0015240 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Best, Catherine Stevens, Michael Tyler, Christian Kroos, Christopher Davis and Denis Burnham |
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| Title: | Enabling Human Communication: Tough problems in human communication with bold but informed solutions drawing on sound, speech and language research capabilities |
| Years: | 2004-12-06 - 2010-12-31 |
| ID: | P0014346 |
| UWS Researchers: | Denis Burnham, Catherine Stevens, Christine Kitamura and Stephen Malloch |
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| Title: | Performance Practice in New Interfaces for Realtime Electronic Music Performance |
| Years: | 2006-12-29 - 2010-07-31 |
| ID: | P0014741 |
| UWS Researchers: | Garth Paine, Roger Dean and Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Dynamic Auditory-Visual Humans |
| Years: | 2007-08-06 - 2008-12-31 |
| ID: | P0015758 |
| UWS Researchers: | Christopher Davis, Denis Burnham, Catherine Best, Roger Dean, Catherine Stevens, Jeesun Kim, Takaaki Kuratate, Christian Kroos, Michael Tyler and Connie So |
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| Title: | Music cognition in infants, children and adults |
| Years: | 2003-01-30 - 2004-01-29 |
| ID: | P0013700 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Learning the structure of auditory patterns: Development of expectancies and pitch relations in artificial neural networks and human memory |
| Years: | 2000-02-14 - 2000-12-31 |
| ID: | P0010960 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Design, construction and fine-tuning set of auditory icons |
| Years: | 2004-06-03 - 2004-09-03 |
| ID: | P0014414 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Design and Evaluation of Auditory Icons for Civil Aviation: Experimental Investigation of Environmental Sounds as Informative Warning Signals |
| Years: | 2005-07-21 - 2006-06-30 |
| ID: | P0014616 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens and Mark Wiggins |
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| Title: | Cognition and Affect in Music Listening: inter-relations between musical structure, cue abstraction and continuous measures of emotion |
| Years: | 2000-01-01 - 2000-12-31 |
| ID: | P0012396 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | HCSNet Priority Area: Perception and Action |
| Years: | 2007-01-01 - 2009-12-31 |
| ID: | P0015776 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | HCSNet Workshop on Music as Human Communication: The Science of Music Perception, Cognition and Performance |
| Years: | 2006-07-17 - 2007-07-31 |
| ID: | P0015225 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | Dancing to the Music of Time: Rate and Rhythm in Memory for Movement |
| Years: | 2012-03-02 - 2013-06-30 |
| ID: | P00020575 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Stevens |
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| Title: | From Thinking Heads to Swarming Heads |
| Years: | 2010-05-28 - 2011-12-25 |
| ID: | P00018719 |
| UWS Researchers: | Damith Herath, Christian Kroos, Catherine Stevens and X Stelarc |
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| Title: | The New Science of Learning: Robots learning from Humans, Humans learning from Robots |
| Years: | 2009-09-22 - 2011-05-11 |
| ID: | P00017331 |
| UWS Researchers: | Denis Burnham, Catherine Stevens, Christian Kroos, Damith Herath and X Stelarc |
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Supervision
Professor Stevens is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Title: | Implicit Learning of Complex Temporal and Rhythmic Relations |
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| Title: | Memory for Human Movement: Behavioural and Neural Mechanisms in Action Recollection |
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| Title: | Facial Processing in a more Naturalistic Context: What Impact does the use of Dynamic Facial Stimuli have on Holistic Processing? |
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Previous Supervision
| Title: | An Investigation of the Implicit Learning of Metrical and Non-Metrical Temporal Patterns |
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| Field of Research: | PSYCHOLOGY |
| Thesis: | An Investigation of the Implicit Learning of Metrical and Non-Metrical Temporal Patterns |
Media
Media Contact Details
| Media Officer: | UWS Media Unit |
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| Phone: | (02) 9678 7083 |
| Email: | media@uws.edu.au |
