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Samuel Mehr is an Associate Professor Adjunct at Yale University's Child Study Center 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 team exploring how humans perceive and create music across cultures.
Education: EdD in Human Development from Harvard University (2017), BM in Music Education from Eastman School of Music (2007).
Key Awards: NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (2017), Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi Prime Minister’s Science Prize (2023).
Research Themes: Cross-cultural music studies, infant-directed speech/song, music's role in emotional regulation, and large-scale citizen-science experiments. Lab collaborations span evolutionary anthropology, data science, and developmental psychology.
Funding: Supported by NIH, NSF, Royal Society of New Zealand, Harvard Data Science Initiative, and Music Man Foundation. Open-science advocate; data/code openly shared on GitHub/Zenodo.
