Sangeeta Ullal

Sangeeta Ullal is a 2nd year graduate student in Experimental Psychology at UNLV. She 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.

Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from UNLV in December 2008. Prior to attending UNLV she studied Zoology at Colorado State University. She loves music and took piano lessons when she was younger. She has also played guitar for a few years. She has always been fascinated with Psychology, Why? being her favorite question. She is planning on pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.

Caleb Picker

Aaronell Matta

Aaronell Matta is a 4th year graduate student in Experimental Psychology at UNLV. She received a B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Biology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2005, where she studied affect and social cognition with Karen Gasper. Here interest in music developed early, as she has been playing violin since the age of three, and spent several years involved in a youth symphony near her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. She is fascinated with the overlap between music and psychology, and is specifically interested in the effect that music has on mood, as well as differences in how people perceive non-verbal vs. verbal auditory stimuli (i.e., music/melody vs. speech/lyrics).

Matt Rosenthal

Matt Rosenthal is a 1st year graduate student in Experimental Psychology at UNLV. His curiosity about the philosophy of mind-- particularly the mind-body problem-- paired with his life-long interest in music directed him towards research in the Auditory Cognition Lab. He hopes to tackle questions about the mind-body problem by investigating intersensory attention. Matt’s research currently focuses on the rhythmic distribution of attention to multimodal events.

Josephine LaRosa

Yol Garcia

Olivia Wotman

Walker Warren

Susan Barahona

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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 present the perfect opportunity for examining the effects of culture on auditory cognition. At Cornell she worked with Sandra Trehub (University of Toronto), Scott Johnson (UCLA), Morten Christiansen, and Carol Krumhansl. She began working as an assistant professor in Psychology at Harvard University in 2005, and in fall 2007 she joined the faculty at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Download her publications or her vita: EEHCV_2009Fall.pdf.