Associate Professor Catherine (Kate) Stevens


Assoc Prof Catherine (Kate) Stevens
Associate Director: Music, Sound & Action

 kj.stevens@uws.edu.au

Room no: 1.G.132
Building: 1
Campus: UWS Bankstown (Bullecourt Ave, Milperra)
Phone no.: +61 2 9772-6324

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Sydney, 1993
  • BA(Hons I), Psychology, University of Sydney, 1988
  • MAPS, RPsych

Position Description

  • Associate Professor, Psychology
  • MARCS Associate Director: Music, Sound & Action

Past Positions

  • ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Queensland

Teaching

  • Cognition
  • Applied Cognition and Human Performance

 

 

Published Works

In Press
Olsen, K. N., Stevens C., & Tardieu J. (In Press). Loudness change in response to dynamic acoustic intensity Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,
2010
2009
McKechnie, S., & C. Stevens (2009). Knowledge unspoken: Contemporary dance and the cycle of practice-led research, basic and applied research, and research-led practice |Auth: McKechnie, S. & Stevens, C. (SmithH., DeanR T., Ed.). Practice-led research, research-led practice in the creative arts, 84-103.
McKechnie, S., & Stevens C. J. (2009). Visible thought: Choreographic cognition in creating, performing, and watching contemporary dance. |Auth: McKechnie, S., & Stevens, C. J. (ButterworthJ., WildschutL., Ed.). Contemporary Choreography , 38-51.
Stevens, C., & A. Petocz (2009). The user knows: Considering the cognitive contribution of the user in the design of auditory warnings.|Auth: Stevens, C., & Petocz, A. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.,
C., Stevens (2009). It’s about time! Perceiving events and acquiring expectancies. Invited ‘One Step Further’ contribution ¬ Chapter 4 Sensation & Perception |Auth:Stevens, C. (WestenD., BurtonL., KowalskiR., Ed.). Psychology. Australian and New Zealand 2nd Edition, Milton, Qld,
C., Stevens, Schubert E., Frear M., Haszard Morris R., Chen J., Healey S., et al. (2009). Cognition and the Temporal Arts: Investigating audience response to dance using PDAs that record continuous data during live performance. |Auth: Stevens, C., Schubert, E., Haszard Morris, R., Frear, M., Chen, J., Healey, S., Schoknecht, C., & Hansen, S. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Accepted May 7 2009,
C., Stevens, Brennan D., Petocz A., & Howell C. (2009). Designing informative warning signals: Effects of indicator type, modality and task demand on recognition speed and accuracy. | Auth: Stevens, C., Brennan, D., Petocz, A., & Howell, C. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 5,
C., Stevens, Schubert E., Wang S., Kroos C., & Halovic S. (2009). Moving with and without music: Scaling and lapsing in time in the performance of contemporary dance. | Auth:Stevens, C., Schubert, E., Wang, S., Kroos, C., & Halovic, S. Music Perception Special Issue, 26(5),
C., Stevens, Winskel H., Howell C., Vidal L. - M., Latimer C., & Milne-Home J. (2009). Direct and indirect methods for measuring audience reactions to contemporary dance. | Auth: Stevens, C., Winskel, H., Howell, C., Vidal, L-M., Latimer, C., & Milne-Home, J. Proceedings of the World Dance Alliance Global Summit, 2008.,
Schubert, E., Vincs K., & C. Stevens (2009). A quantitative approach to analysing reliability of engagement responses to dance. | Auth: Schubert, E., Vincs, K., & Stevens, C. Proceedings of the World Dance Alliance Global Summit, 2008. ,
Vincs, K., Schubert E., & C. Stevens (2009). Measuring responses to dance: is there a ‘Egrammar’ of dance? | Auth: Vincs, K., Schubert, E., & Stevens, C. Proceedings of the World Dance Alliance Global Summit, 2008.,
Olsen, K. N., & Stevens C. (2009). Perceptual overestimation of loudness change: Is stimulus continuity necessary? 2nd International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICoMCS2), , University of New South Wales, ISBN: 978-1-74108-203-6
Olsen, K. N., Stevens C., & Tardieu J. (2009). Perceptual bias or artefact? Overestimation of loudness change in response to dynamic acoustic intensity. 36th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC09), , University of Wollongong, ISBN: 978-0-909881-40-5
Broughton, M., & C. Stevens (2009). Music, movement and marimba: An investigation of the role of movement and gesture in communicating musical expression to an audience. Psychology of Music, 37(2), 137-153.
Stevens, C., McDougall S., Reppa I., Forsythe A., Isherwood S., & Petocz A. (2009). The use of multimodal representations in icon interpretation. (HarrisD., Ed.). Engineering, Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, Human-Computer Interaction International 2009. Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5639, 62-70., Berlin
Opacic, T., Stevens C., & Tillmann B. (2009). Unspoken knowledge: implicit learning of structured human dance movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 35, 1570-1577.
Stevens, C., & Byron T. (2009). Universals in music processing. (HallamS., CrossI., ThautM., Ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology, 14-23.
2008
Broughton, M., & Stevens C. (2008). Continuous self-report of engagement to live solo marimba performance ICMPC10,
Chen, J., Halovic S., Kroos C., Paine G., Stevens C., & Tardieu J. (2008). Analysis of contemporary dance movement in the presence and absence of a musical soundscape ICMPC10,
Stevens, C. (2008). Music perception and cognition research in Australia ICMPC10,
Broughton, M., & Stevens C. (2008). It's Not Just About Sound: Investigating Marimba Performance as an Auditory and Visual Experience Proceedings of Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference 2007,
Petocz, A., Keller P., & Stevens C. (2008). Auditory warnings, signal-referent relations, and natural indicators: Re-thinking theory and application Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 165-178.
Okazaki, Y., Abrahamyan A., Stevens C., & Ionnides A. A. (2008). The timing of face selectivity and attentional modulation in visual processing Neuroscience, 152, 1130-1144.
Stevens, C., & Byron T. (2008). Universals in music processing (HallamS., CrossI., ThautM., Ed.). Handbook of Music Psychology,
Dean, R., Wilkie S., & Stevens C. (2008). Psychoacoustic manipulation of the sound induced illusory flash CMMR (Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval) 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Olsen, K. N., Stevens C., & Tardieu J. (2008). Intensity, duration and timbre: Effects on loudness and skin conductance. Australian Journal of Psychology, 60(Supplement), 91.
Olsen, K. N., C. Stevens, & Tardieu J. (2008). Dynamic changes in intensity, duration and timbre: Effects on judged loudness and emotional arousal. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC10), , University of Hokkaido, Japan, ISBN: 978-4-9904208-0-2
2007
Tillmann, B., Stevens K., & Keller P. (2007). It's about time: Implicit learning of rhythmic patterns. International Conference on Music Communication Science,
Stevens, C., Winskel H., Healey S., Howell C., Vidal L. - M., Latimer C., et al. (2007). The dancing brain: The effect of expertise on visual attention while viewing Australian contemporary dance. 17th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, 309-314., Canberra, Australia
Perry, N., Stevens C., Wiggins M., & Howell C. (2007). Cough once for danger: An experimental investigation of auditory icons as informative warning signals in civil aviation. Human Factors, 49, 1061-1071. Download: Perry Stevens HumFact 2007.pdf (126.43 KB)
Jones, C., Berry L., & Stevens C. (2007). Speech rate and persuasion in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis for non-native listeners in background noise. Computer Speech and Language, 21, 641-651.
Stevens, C., Walker G., Boyer M., & Gallagher M. (2007). Severe tinnitus and its effect on selective and divided attention. International Journal of Audiology, 46, 208-216.
Stevens, C., & Byron T. (2007). 'Sweet anticipation: Music and the psychology of expectation' by D. Huron Music Perception, 24(5), 511-514. Download: Stevens_Byron_Huron_rev_mp.2007.24.5.511.pdf (58.54 KB)
Broughton, M., & Stevens K. (2007). Moving music: the role of body movement and multi-modal perception in engaging expressive marimba performance Australian Journal of Psychology, 59(Supplement),  21.
Olsen, K. N., C. Stevens, & Tardieu J. (2007). A perceptual bias for increasing loudness: Loudness change and its role in music and mood. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICoMCS), , University of New South Wales, ISBN: 978-1-74108-161-9 Download: Olsen et al. (2007) ICoMCS Proceedings Paper.pdf (228.99 KB)
2006
Rossiter, S., Stevens C., & Walker G. (2006). Tinnitus and its Effect on Working Memory and Attention. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 49, 1-11.
Schubert, E., & Stevens C. (2006). The Effect of Implied Harmony, Contour and Musical Expertise on Judgments of Similarity of Familiar Melodies. Journal of New Music Research, 35(2), 161-174.
Broughton, M., Stevens K., & Malloch S. (2006). Music, movement and marimba: an investigation of the role of movement and gesture in communicating musical expression to an audience. 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 1127-1135., Bologna, Italy
Broughton, M., & Stevens K. (2006). Investigating the role of movement and gesture in communicating musical expression to an audience in solo marimba performance Program of the School of Psychology/MARCS Auditory Laboratories Postgraduate Research Conference, 23.
Broughton, M., Stevens K., & Malloch S. (2006). Notation, embodied cognition and communication: movement and gesture in expressive marimba performance Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Music and Gesture, 151., Hull,UK
Perry, N., Stevens C., & Howell C. (2006). Warning signal design: The effect of modality and iconicity on recognition speed and accuracy. 7th International Australian Aviation Psychology Symposium, , Sydney, Australia
Stevens, C., Perry N., Wiggins M., & Howell C. (2006). Design and evaluation of auditory icons as informative warning signals. , Canberra, Australia
2005
2004
Burnham, D., Stevens C., DiBiase B., Buchholz J., Kitamura C., Malloch S., et al. (2004). Research at MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney Acoustics Australia, 69-73.
Stevens, C. (2004). Cross-cultural studies of musical pitch and time. Acoustical Science and Technology, 25(6), 433-438.
McAuley, J. D., Stevens C., & Humphreys M. S. (2004).  Play it again: did this melody occur frequently or was it heard more recently? The role of stimulus familiarity in the formation of episodic memories for music. Acta Psychologica, 116, 93-108.
Stevens, C., & Gallagher M. (2004). The development of mental models for auditory events: Relational complexity and discrimination of pitch and duration. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22, 569-583.
Keller, P. E., & 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, 3-12.
Coward, S. W., & Stevens C. (2004).  Extracting meaning from sound: Nomic mappings, everyday listening, and perceiving object size from frequency. The Psychological Record, 54(3), 349-364.
C., Stevens (2004). The effect of first language tonality on perception of pitch in speech and music. 18th International Congress on Acoustics., , Kyoto, Japan
Stevens, C., Brennan D., & Parker S. (2004). Multidimensional coding of auditory icons. 18th International Congress on Acoustics., , Kyoto, Japan
Wiggins, M. W., & Stevens K. (2004). Comparative workload assessment of railcorp signallers' use of the ATRICS signalling system. , Melbourne, Victoria
Stevens, C., Brennan D., & Parker S. (2004). Simultaneous Manipulation of Parameters of Auditory Icons to Convey Direction, Size, and Distance: Effects on Recognition and Interpretation. (BarrassS., VickersP., Ed.). 10th International Conference on Auditory Display, , Sydney, Australia
2003
Stevens, C., Malloch S., McKechnie S., & Steven N. (2003). Choreographic cognition: The time-course and phenomenology of creating a dance. Pragmatics & Cognition, 11,
Stevens, C., Lees N., & Vonwiller J. (2003). Experimental tools to evaluate intelligibility of text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis: Effects of voice gender and signal quality. Eurospeech 2003: 8th European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology., , Geneva
Brennan, D., & Stevens C. (2003). Perceived harmonic relationship between tone and tempo. Effect of stimulus timbre. 5th Triennial European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) Conference, , Hanover University of Music & Drama.
Gallagher, M., & Stevens C. (2003). Developing capacity and music cognition in children: Relational complexity and transitive inference using pitch and duration. 5th Triennial European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) Conference, , Hanover University of Music & Drama.
Lees, N., Stevens C., & Vonwiller J. (2003). The effect of voice gender and signal quality on text-to-speech (TTS) intelligibility. 8th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (WESPAC8), , Melbourne
Brennan, D., & C. Stevens (2003). Preference for simple frequency ratios between the repetition rates if tone and tempo. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55(Supplement), 73.
Keresztesi, B., Stevens C., & Petocz A. (2003). The effect of relational information on transitive inference by 5, 7 and 10-year-old children. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55(Supplement), 83.
2002
Brennan, D., & Stevens C. (2002). An experimental investigation of preferred simple integer relationships between pitch and tempo. (StevensC., BurnhamD., McPhersonG., SchubertE., RenwickJ., Ed.). 7th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition,
Stevens, C., Burnham D., McPherson G., Scubert E., & Renwick J. (2002). Proceedings of the 7 th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition , Adelaide
Wiggins, M., Stevens C., Howard A., Henley I., & O'Hare D. (2002). Expert, intermediate and novice performance during simulated pre-flight decision making. Australian Journal of Psychology, 54(3), 162-167.
Brennan, D., & Stevens C. (2002). Specialist musical training and the octave illusion: Analytical listening and veridical perception by pipe organists. Acta Psychologica, 109, 301-314.
Lees, N., Stevens C., & Vonwiller J. (2002). Implicit measurement of intelligibility of male and female voice text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis in noise using a phoneme detection task. Speech Science & Technology Conference, , Melbourne
Stevens, C., Malloch S., Haszard Morris R., & McKechnie S. (2002). Shaped time: A dynamical systems analysis of contemporary dance. (StevensC., BurnhamD., McPhersonG., SchubertE., RenwickJ., Ed.). 7th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, 161-164.
Stevens, C., & Walker G. (2002). Tinnitus and its effect on cognition.
Stevens, C., Walker G., & Gallagher M. (2002). The effect of tinnitius on spatial attention and implicit memory Australian Journal of Psychology, 54, 62.
Lees, N., & Stevens K. (2002).  Recognizing emotion in voice and face: Do audio-visual features integrate? Australian Journal of Psychology, 56.
Wiggins, M. W., Stevens C., Howard A., Henley I., & O'Hare D. (2002). Expert, intermediate and novice performance during simulated pre-flight decision-making. Australian Journal of Psychology, 54, 162-167.
2001
2000
1999
Stevens, C., & Asmar C. (1999). Doing Postgraduate Research in Australia , Carlton, Melbourne
Wiggins, M., & Stevens (1999). Aviation Social Science: Research Methods in Practice. , Aldershot, UK
Stevens, K. (1999). Many rivers to cross: Research supervision from the student perspective. Australian Journal of Psychology, 51(Supplement), 140.
Stevens, K., & Pressing J. (1999). Music as a brain and behavioural system. Special issue of Australian Journal of Psychology, 51, 125-212 + Editorial.
1998
Sexton, M., & Stevens K. (1998). Context effects in auditory pattern discrimination: Effects of pattern similarity, resolution, and musical training. (YiS W., Ed.). 5th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition: Music, Mind and Science, 131-137., Seoul, Korea
Stevens, C. (1998). Music, Gestalt, and Computing: M. Leman (Ed.) Music Perception, 16, 249-257., Berlin
Stevens, K. (1998). Australian Music and Psychology seminar (AMPS) Journal of Music Perception and Cognition, 43-54.
Wiggins, M., & Stevens K. (1998). Social science research in aviation.
Stevens, K., & McAuley J. D. (1998). Episodic memory for music: The manipulation of melody and text as relational information. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50(Supplement), 64 .
Sexton, M., & Stevens K. (1998). Pulling apart wholes: Effects of context, resolution and musical training on auditory sequence discrimination. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50(Supplement), 62.
1997
1996
Stevens, K. (1996). Prosodic features in music: Influences on the salience of pitch and accent. (PennycookB., Costa-GiomiE., Ed.). Fourth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 167-172., Montréal, Quebec
Asmar, C., & Stevens K. (1996). From woe to go: ARC large grants. Campus Review, 7.
Bazeley, P., Kemp L., Stevens K., Asmar C., Grbich C., Marsh H., et al. (1996). Waiting in the wings: A study of early career academic researchers in Australia. Commissioned Report No. 50, , Canberra, Australia
Stevens, K. (1996). Prosodic structure in music: The salience of accent in music recognition. International Journal of Psychology, 31(3-4), 263.
Stevens, K. (1996). The interaction of pitch and timing components in memory for music. Australian Journal of Psychology, 48(Supplement), 144.
Stevens, K. J. (1996). Prosodic structure of music: The role of pitch and accent in sequence discrimination. Australian Journal of Psychology, 48(Supplement), 48.
1995
Stevens, K. (1995). Prosody in music: The interaction of pitch and accent in a music discrimination task. Australian Journal of Psychology, 47(Supplement), 26.
1994
Joung, W., Latimer C., & Stevens C. (1994). Modelling symmetry detection with backpropagation networks. Fifth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, 33-36., Brisbane
Stevens, C., & Wiles J. (1994). Representations of tonal music: A case study in the development of temporal relationships. (MozerM C., SmolenskyP., TouretzkyD S., ElmanJ L., WeigendA S., Ed.). 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School, 228-235.
Stevens, C. (1994). Representations of tonal music: The development of temporal relationships in a recurrent network. (DeliegeI., Ed.). 3rd International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition,
[Anonymous] (1994). Collected papers from a symposium on connectionist models and psychology. (WilesJ., LatimerC., StevensC., Ed.). Technical Report #289,
Joung, W., Latimer C., & Stevens K. (1994). Connectionist modeling of symmetry detection with backpropagation networks Australian Journal of Psychology, 46(Supplement), 16-17.
Kelly, J., & Stevens K. (1994). The effect of complexity on children's memory for auditory patterns. Australian Journal of Psychology, 46(Supplement), 17.
Latimer, C., Irish M., & Stevens K. (1994). Attentional shifts are faster than eye movements. Australian Journal of Psychology, 46(Supplement), 18.
Stevens, K., & Latimer C. (1994). A neural network model of the scale illusion: A mechanistic account of grouping by frequency. Australian Journal of Psychology, 46(Supplement), 31.
1993
1992
1991
1990
Latimer, C. R., Stevens C. J., & Hughes E. (1990). Behavioural studies of feature weighting in the recognition of alphabetic characters and geometric forms. First Australian Conference on Neural Networks, , Sydney, Australia
Vonwiller, J. P., King R. W., Stevens C., & R. Latimer C. (1990). Comprehension of prosody in synthesized speech. Third Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology SST-90, 244-249.

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