Sandra Trehub (1938 — January 20, 2023) was a Canadian psychologist recognized for her research in the field of

music psychology Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, res ...

. She held the position of Professor Emeritus at the

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Biography

Trehub completed her PhD in

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, and subsequently joined the faculty at the

. Trehub conducted research on the development of

auditory perception Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium. The academic field concerned with hearing is auditory ...

among infants and young children. She also conducted 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 died on January 20, 2023.

Awards

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

Selected works

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References

20th-century births Year of birth missing 2023 deaths McGill University Faculty of Science alumni University of Toronto faculty Canadian women psychologists Music psychologists {{Psychologist-stub