Samuel Mehr

Samuel Mehr joined the faculty of the Yale Child Study Center 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 working on auditory perception; the psychology of music, speech, and sound; and gamified citizen science. Mehr's work draws on ideas and tools from cognitive and developmental psychology, data science, and evolutionary anthropology, to ask: Why do we hear what we hear?

The Music Lab was established in 2017 at Harvard University’s Department of Psychology, with funding from the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award and the Harvard Data Science Initiative. In addition to more traditional experimental work in cognitive and developmental science, the lab specializes in large-scale citizen-science experiments. You can participate at https://themusiclab.org.