Dr David Van Valkenburg

BSc (Toronto), MA/PhD (Virginia)

Lecturer

telephone   +61 8 6488 3257

email    dvanv@psy.uwa.edu.au

Research interests
The input to our ears is an undifferentiated stream of variation of pressure, and yet our experience of the world is organized — we hear the world segregated into perceptually discrete voices, instruments, and sounds. I am interested in learning how the brain accomplishes this.

My research, therefore, revolves around auditory perception. Primarily, I am interested in a class of phenomena known as auditory stream segregation, which is to say that I am interested in how the brain organizes auditory input to produce phenomenological parts and wholes. I am also interested in cross modal (vision/audition) attention and integration, as well as exploring the perceptual basis of various sound and musical illusions.