Draft:Samuel Mehr

Samuel Mehr is a New Zealand cognitive scientist specialising in auditory perception, developmental psychology, cross-cultural research, and data science. He is based at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center.

Mehr was the recipient of the New Zealand Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize in 2023, and the US National Institutes of Health Director's Early Independence Award in 2017 , both for his work on the psychology of music.