Psychological Functions of Music in Infancy

Join YCSC Assistant Professor Adjunct Samuel Mehr, EdD to learn about his work in early perception of music. Having joined YCSC faculty in 2023, he splits his time between New Haven and New Zealand, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Auckland. He directs The Music Lab, an international research group focusing on the psychology of music. Mehr’s research draws on ideas and tools from cognitive and developmental psychology, data science, and evolutionary anthropology, to ask what music is, how music works, and why music exists.

This will be a hyrbid event, held live in the Senn Conference Room and simulcast live via Zoom.