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Samuel Mehr is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University and a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Auckland. His research focuses on auditory perception, the psychology of music and speech, and gamified citizen science. He directs The Music Lab, an international group exploring how human minds process music, speech, and sound through large-scale experiments and cross-cultural studies. Mehr holds an EdD from Harvard University and a BM from the Eastman School of Music.
His work has been funded by the NIH, Royal Society of New Zealand, NSF, and others. Key awards include the 2023 Prime Minister’s Science Prize and NIH Early Independence Award. He specializes in citizen science platforms like themusiclab.org, engaging millions globally. Recent studies include acoustic patterns in infant-directed speech, universal features of human song, and music’s impact on infant mood.
Publications span Nature, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, emphasizing open science practices. Mehr collaborates internationally, with research on music’s evolutionary origins, cultural universals, and developmental psychology.
