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The Psychology of Music: Why is it a human universal?
YCSC Assistant Professor Adjunct Samuel Mehr was recently recognized for his work on the psychology of music by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, having won the 2023 Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Maea MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist award. The award comes with a prize of $200,000, and Samuel says the prize money will allow him to expand the lab and bring on new talent to help with some of the more technical computational aspects of his research.
Source: Royal Society Te Apārangi