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Biography
Sandra Trehub is a Canadian psychologist recognized for her research in the field of music psychology. She holds the position of Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
Biography
Trehub completed her PhD in psychology at McGill University, and subsequently joined the faculty at the University of Toronto.
Trehub conducts research on the development of auditory perception among infants and young children. She also conducts research on the impacts of singing to infants in the course of caregiving. In one study, Trehub and colleagues demonstrated that infants who were sung to stayed settled for twice as long compared to when those who were spoken to.
Trehub was awarded the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Achievement Award in 2013. The citation for the award stated that Trehub's "pioneering and seminal research in developmental music cognition has been a crucial contribution" to the field of music psychology.
Selected works
- Trehub, Sandra E. (1976). "The Discrimination of Foreign Speech Contrasts by Infants and Adults". Child Development. 47 (2): 466–472. doi:10.2307/1128803. JSTOR 1128803.
- Trehub, Sandra E.; Bull, Dale; Thorpe, Leigh A. (1984). "Infants' Perception of Melodies: The Role of Melodic Contour". Child Development. 55 (3): 821. doi:10.2307/1130133. JSTOR 1130133.
- Trainor, Laurel J.; Trehub, Sandra E. (1992). "A comparison of infants' and adults' sensitivity to Western musical structure". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 18 (2): 394–402. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.18.2.394.
- Trehub, Sandra E. (2003). "The developmental origins of musicality". Nature Neuroscience. 6 (7): 669–673. doi:10.1038/nn1084. PMID 12830157.
- Hannon, Erin E.; Trehub, Sandra E. (2005). "Metrical Categories in Infancy and Adulthood". Psychological Science. 16 (1): 48–55. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00779.x. PMID 15660851.
- Hannon, E. E.; Trehub, S. E. (2005). "Tuning in to musical rhythms: Infants learn more readily than adults". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (35): 12639–12643. Bibcode:2005PNAS..10212639H. doi:10.1073/pnas.0504254102. PMC 1194930. PMID 16105946.
- Trehub, Sandra E.; Hannon, Erin E. (2006). "Infant music perception: Domain-general or domain-specific mechanisms?". Cognition. 100: 73–99. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2005.11.006. PMID 16380107.
