Auditory Cognition and Development Lab

 

DIRECTOR

Erin Hannon
 Erin Hannon is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She became fascinated with auditory perception and cognition in high school while she was struggling with piano lessons and learning Japanese. She completed a double concentration in Music and Psychology at New College of Florida, where she attempted to combine her interests in cognition, music theory, and culture. While doing graduate work in Experimental Psychology at Cornell University, she came to the realization that infants and children provide the perfect opportunity to examine the effects of culture on auditory cognition. At Cornell she worked with Sandra Trehub (University of Toronto), Scott Johnson, Morten Christiansen, and Carol Krumhansl. After working as an Assistant Professor at Harvard University for two years she joined the faculty at University of Nevada, Las Vegas in fall 2007. Download her publications. Download EEHCV_2007Fall.doc. http://psychology.unlv.edu/Publications.htmlPeople_files/EEHCV_2007Fall.docPeople_files/EEHCV_Fall07.pdfshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2

Sangeeta Ullal


Sangeeta Ullal is interested in perception and cognition of music from a cross-cultural perspective. Having received training in Hindustani vocal and instrumental music, she gained an understanding of the subtleties of Indian Classical Music. She first developed an appreciation for cross-cultural aspects of music when she briefly played with a fusion Jazz band, incorporating Indian Classical and Western Jazz styles of music. While getting an undergraduate degree in Biology and Psychology from McMaster University, Canada, she realized that there was a vast area of overlap between her interests in psychology and music. She is interested in rhythm and tempo perception, specifically how musicians and non-musicians process extremely slow or extremely fast tempos, such as Vilambit and Dhrut in Hindustani Music. She hopes to approach this from a developmental perspective, examining how and when these abilities develop over time from infancy through adulthood.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

LAB MANAGER

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Michael Noh


Michael Noh was raised in a household with a professional violinist for a mother and a renowned psychiatrist for a father, which cultivated his interests in both music and psychology.  Over the past two years he has been volunteering for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, including construction of specialty homes for aspiring musicians in the newly renovated Musicians Village of New Orleans. He completed his undergraduate coursework at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, earning a Bachelors degree in Psychology.  During his studies, he discovered his particular interest in cognition and the brain. He hopes to pursue graduate work in cognition and to become a professor of Cognitive Psychology.

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS


Nikki Correa is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Marriage and Family Therapy. Having interest in the development of children and family relations, she hopes to continue on to graduate school for School Psychology.

Kendall Fearn is a Junior majoring in Psychology. She comes from a family of educators, with her mother and two aunts working as career teachers at the elementary and secondary level. She is very interested in the cognitive development of children from a music perspective. Also she would like to continue to work with children, especially those with special needs. Kendall is on the UNLV softball team, and was selected in 2007 for the Mountain West All-conference team. She has been active with community outreach programs with local youth groups and non-profit fundraisers for organizations including the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation.