SIGNAL/NOISE

Scott Leimroth

Everything has a frequency, that's why images, smells, sounds, tastes, touch, and words are spells.

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PhD Candidate, UoW · Wollongong, NSW
00 / About

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I'm a scientist, marketer, musician, biker, diver, and teacher, generally distracted and doing too many things at once.

Currently a PhD Candidate, Academic Tutor, and HDR Representative in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, where my research focuses on cardiovascular measures of cognition in relation to music listening. Supervisors: Professor Robert Barry, Dr Frances De Blasio, and Dr Timothy Byron.

Driving Australia's most recognised specialist four-wheel drive brands. The whole stack, built and run in house. Outside the lab and the office: two wheels, underwater, or somewhere else entirely.

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science."
Albert Einstein
B.Mus., B.Ed.
UNSW, 1994
B.Psych.Sci.
UoW, Social Marketing Major, 2019
B.Psych. (Hons.)
UoW, 2021
PhD Candidate
UoW, 2022 onwards
ORCID
0000-0003-3617-7994
Role
Academic Tutor, HDR Rep, School of Psychology
01 / Research

Measuring the unmeasurable.

R / 01

Cardiovascular Measures of Cognition

Primary PhD focus: how heart rate variability and cardiac output reflect cognitive and emotional states in response to music listening. What the body reveals that words cannot.

R / 02

Music and the Autonomic System

Mapping the relationship between musical structure (tempo, timbre, harmonic tension) and the body's involuntary physiological responses, including skin conductance and HRV.

R / 03

EEG and the Orienting Reflex

Extending Sokolov's orienting reflex model using EEG/ERP methods, investigating how neural responses to unexpected stimuli reveal the architecture of attention and cognition.

Awards

Publications and Presentations

02 / Marketing

Marketing is about relationships.

Three generations of diesel expertise at Berrima Diesel Service
·Three generations of diesel expertise,
Berrima Diesel Service, since 1956.

Driving Australia's most recognised specialist four-wheel drive brands. The whole stack, built and run in house.

Berrima Diesel Service is our family business, about 100km south of Sydney.

Berrima Diesel is recognised worldwide in the 4WD community as the original diesel gurus, with over 65 years of combined experience. Featured in Overlander, 4x4 Australia, Caravan World, Truck, and on TV.

With a degree in social marketing and behaviour change and years of hands-on experience, I bring an unusual combination of academic rigour and practical execution to marketing challenges.

Visit Berrima Diesel
20+
Years of marketing experience across digital, print, social, and brand strategy
100k+
Social media followers across Berrima Diesel channels
65+
Years of combined diesel expertise behind the brand
03 / Music

Sound is my first language.

I have been a musician since my mother first gave me piano lessons at a very young age. I took classical guitar lessons at around 10, returned seriously to guitar at about 16 through private lessons with Dev Gopalasamy, and began performing live in bands at 18.

I graduated from UNSW in 1994 with a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education, specialising in performance and music education. Music has never left: it's both the subject of my PhD research and a constant presence as a performer and teacher.

The connection between music and the body is what drives my research. Every rhythmic pattern, every harmonic shift, every unexpected beat creates a physiological response in the listener. Understanding that response is understanding something fundamental about what it means to be human.

  • ~Performer with over 30 years of active musical experience
  • ~Music educator at secondary and tertiary levels
  • ~Research specialisation: psychophysiology of music perception
  • B.Mus. / Performance and Education, UNSW 1994
  • B.Ed. / Music Education, UNSW 1994
  • Tutor / School of Psychology, UoW
  • ORCID / 0000-0003-3617-7994
04 / Life

Discovery and exploration.

Riding through outback Australia
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Mechanical Signal

Motorcycles

Two wheels, open road. A constant feedback loop between machine and rider. The journey is the point, and the memories made along the way are the signal worth keeping.

Underwater exploration on scuba
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Depth Signal

Scuba Diving

Below the surface, the signal changes entirely. Silence, pressure, bioluminescence. The dive computer pings. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Exploring archaeological sites
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Discovery Signal

Adventure

Travel, exploration, and the deliberate practice of being in places you've never been before. Curiosity is not a hobby; it's a methodology.

05 / Contact

Let's make some noise.

Research·Collaboration·Anything interesting