UNLV Auditory Cognition and Development Lab

09/29/2026

It's a busy week for our lab! Grad student Rachel Dewald will be presenting our research at the Misophonia Research Fund investigator's meeting, and Erin Hannon will be presenting UNLV Music Lab research at the Expression, Language and Music conference in Storrs, CT!

09/29/2026

Thanks to all the families who helped collect data for the ManyBabies 3 paper which is now out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science)! 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (Marcus, 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵

09/01/2026

Our friends here at UNLV have an exciting new resource!

UNLV boasts Nevada’s only MRI facility dedicated to university research. Here’s what our professors hope to discover with it.

08/07/2026

Check out this new study about the beneficial effects of dancing on mental health!

Researchers find dance reduced depressive symptoms and social anxiety in young people in eight-week trial

04/28/2026

We had so much fun last weekend hosting families for Science is Everywhere! https://www.scifest.vegas/scienceiseverywhere

04/11/2026

Exciting new paper about animal musicality, providing evidence that bees can discriminate rhythmic patterns!

Flexible rhythm perception, once thought to require a big brain, has been shown in humble bumble bees

04/01/2026

Members of our lab were a part of the huge replication project discussed in this article (now published in Nature, link in comments). The results are somewhat disappointing --only roughly half the papers/claims replicated, and AI did not help predict which studies would replicate. But the hope is that this work will eventually help us build a more robust science.

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds.