Re: PhD position on goosebump music in Kiel, Germany (Leon van Noorden )


Subject: Re: PhD position on goosebump music in Kiel, Germany
From:    Leon van Noorden  <leonvannoorden@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:21:13 +0100
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Dear Christian, This announcement makes me remember an observation I made a long time ago during one of the famous conferences on musical acustics in Ossiach. It was during a demonstration of Reinier Plomp on combination tones. I was sitting quite some distance from the stage. So I could clearly observe that the location of the combination tone that I heard was different from that of the original components. I felt that the CT was generated in my (left) ear. The sensation was not much different from the unexpected goosebump generating touch of someone tickling you with a hair in your neck or ear. I had always in mind to investigate whether the combination tones could be an explanation of such hair raising sounds as from your nails on the blackboard. I would be very glad if you could consider this hypothesis in your exploratory work on goosebumps. Kind regards, Leon van Noorden -----Original Message----- From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Christian Kaernbach Sent: vrijdag 2 maart 2007 18:16 To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx Subject: PhD position on goosebump music in Kiel, Germany We offer a limited PhD position (one year) with good chances for prolongation (another two years) on the following highly topical subject: Why does music sometimes elicit goosebumps? Why do certain sounds (chalk on a blackboard) sometimes elicit goosebumps? How can we objectively measure goosebumps? How can we reliably induce goosebumps? Are goosebumps to music different from goosebumps to atrocious sounds or to cold? What is the time course of goosebumps relatively to the stimulus, and compared to that of skin conductance and other physiological correlates of arousal? ... (and whatever comes to your mind once there is a goosebump recording system available) A more detailed description of the job offer can be found at http://www.psychologie.uni-kiel.de/emotion/goose/phd.pdf We present our brand new goosebump recording system (see also:) http://www.psychologie.uni-kiel.de/emotion/goose/ on March 26/27 in Trier, Germany, on the TeaP conference (Experimental Psychologists Meeting), http://www.teap.uni-trier.de/ but you are also welcome to visit us in Kiel to get a demonstration of this new device. Applications will be accepted until position is filled. We will start interviewing candidates on April 2. -- Prof. Dr. Christian Kaernbach Allgemeine Psychologie Institut für Psychologie Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Olshausenstr. 62 D-24098 Kiel Germany www.kaernbach.de


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