Samuel A. Mehr

Also affiliated with Yale University, International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research

NeuroscienceComputer ScienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologySocial SciencesPsychology

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 6%percentile

0.208Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

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The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, A Global Corpus of Vocal Music

Open Mind(2025)10.1162/opmi.a.4

Top 65%

0.208DataRank

Top 65%3 citations

Martynas Snarskis, Thanos Kyritsis, Lidya Yurdum, Constance M. Bainbridge, S. Atwood +19 more

Papers

Driven by 34 papers — median percentile 35. Top paper: “Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily”.

Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences(2021)10.1098/rstb.2021.0089

N/A

1.3DataRank · unranked

72 citations

Ghazal Jessani, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Peter de Villiers, Jill de Villiers, Samuel A. Mehr +1 more

Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.04.09.032995

N/A

0.489DataRank · unranked

25 citations

Cody J. Moser, Mila Bertolo, Harry Lee-Rubin, Dorsa Amir, Constance M. Bainbridge +38 more

The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, A Global Corpus of Vocal Music

Open Mind(2025)10.1162/opmi.a.4

Top 65%

0.208DataRank

Top 65%3 citations

Martynas Snarskis, Thanos Kyritsis, Lidya Yurdum, Constance M. Bainbridge, S. Atwood +19 more

Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies

Nature Human Behaviour(2020)10.1038/s41562-020-00963-z

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

113 citations

Mila Bertolo, Julie Youngers, S. Atwood, Lidya Yurdum, Jan Simson +5 more

Sound-induced motion in chimpanzees does not imply shared ancestry for music or dance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2020)10.1073/pnas.2015664118

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Manvir Singh, Samuel A. Mehr, Mila Bertolo

Toward a productive evolutionary understanding of music

Behavioral and Brain Sciences(2021)10.1017/s0140525x21000030

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Max M. Krasnow, Gregory A. Bryant, Edward H. Hagen, Samuel A. Mehr

Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily

PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)(2021)10.31234/osf.io/fy5bh

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Ghazal Jessani, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Peter de Villiers, Jill de Villiers, Samuel A. Mehr +1 more

Language experience predicts music processing in ½ million speakers of 54 languages

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.10.18.464888

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Courtney B. Hilton, Elika Bergelson, Samuel A. Mehr, Jingxuan Liu

The ability to predict actions of others from distributed cues is still developing in 6- to 8-year-old children

Journal of Vision(2021)10.1167/jov.21.5.14

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Daniel Kim, Samuel A. Mehr, Ken Nakayama, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam +1 more

Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures

Nature Human Behaviour(2022)10.1038/s41562-022-01410-x

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

173 citations

Cody James Moser, Mila Bertolo, Harry Lee-Rubin, Dorsa Amir, Constance M. Bainbridge +38 more

Children infer the behavioral contexts of unfamiliar foreign songs.

Journal of Experimental Psychology General(2022)10.1037/xge0001289

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

29 citations

Liam Crowley-de Thierry, Ran Yan, Alia Martin, Samuel A. Mehr, Courtney B. Hilton

Expectancy Effects Threaten the Inferential Validity of Synchrony-Prosociality Research

Open Mind(2022)10.1162/opmi_a_00067

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

26 citations

Adena Schachner, Samuel A. Mehr, S. Atwood

Developmental psychologists should adopt citizen science to improve generalization and reproducibility

Infant and Child Development(2022)10.1002/icd.2348

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

20 citations

Laura Germine, Samuel A. Mehr, Mahesh Srinivasan, Joshua K. Hartshorne, Wei Li

Using machine learning to understand age and gender classification based on infant temperament

PLoS ONE(2022)10.1371/journal.pone.0266026

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Erich Seamon, Jennifer A. Mattera, Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Rosalind J. Wright, Koraly Pérez‐Edgar +26 more

Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis

Behavioral and Brain Sciences(2022)10.1017/s0140525x21000352

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Samuel A. Mehr, Courtney B. Hilton

Universal interpretations of vocal music

PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)(2022)10.31234/osf.io/4kdx6

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Manvir Singh, Luke Glowacki, Tom Vardy, Quentin D. Atkinson, Courtney B. Hilton +4 more

Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music

Nature Reviews Psychology(2023)10.1038/s44159-023-00182-z

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

59 citations

Samuel A. Mehr, Manvir Singh

How games can make behavioural science better

Nature(2023)10.1038/d41586-023-00065-6

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

54 citations

Jan Simson, Andrés Buxó‐Lugo, Duáne G. Watson, Samuel A. Mehr, Bria Long

Language experience predicts music processing in a half-million speakers of fifty-four languages

Current Biology(2023)10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.067

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

40 citations

Courtney B. Hilton, Elika Bergelson, Samuel A. Mehr, Jingxuan Liu

Universal interpretations of vocal music

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2023)10.1073/pnas.2218593120

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

39 citations

Manvir Singh, Luke Glowacki, Thomas Vardy, Quentin D. Atkinson, Courtney B. Hilton +4 more

Sex differences in music perception are negligible

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.05.23.541970

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

16 citations

Daniel Müllensiefen, Isabelle Peretz, Sarah C. Woolley, Jon T. Sakata, Samuel A. Mehr +1 more

Universality, domain-specificity, and development of psychological responses to music

PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)(2023)10.31234/osf.io/cdftm

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Samuel A. Mehr, Manvir Singh

Music, a piece of many puzzles in developmental science

Developmental Science(2023)10.1111/desc.13438

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Heather Bortfeld, Samuel A. Mehr

Spectro-temporal acoustical markers differentiate speech from song across cultures

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-49040-3

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

45 citations

Samuel A. Mehr, Roxane S. Hoyer, Jérémie Ginzburg, Yi Du, Robert J. Zatorre +1 more

The presence of fear: How subjective fear, not physiological changes, shapes the experience of presence.

Journal of Experimental Psychology General(2024)10.1037/xge0001576

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Matthew T Crawford, Katie Blackburne, André Botes, Kieran Carnegie, Samuel A. Mehr +7 more

Core systems of music perception

Trends in Cognitive Sciences(2025)10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.013

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Samuel A. Mehr

Ecological Momentary Assessment Reveals Causal Effects of Music Enrichment on Infant Mood

Child Development(2025)10.1111/cdev.14246

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Lidya Yurdum, Ekanem Ebinne, Courtney B. Hilton, Estelle Lai, Mila Bertolo +6 more

Language experience predicts music processing in a half-million speakers of fifty-four languages

Current Biology(2025)10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.016

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Courtney B. Hilton, Elika Bergelson, Samuel A. Mehr, Jingxuan Liu

Core systems of music perception

(2025)10.31234/osf.io/bdpjc_v3

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Samuel A. Mehr

Core systems of music perception

(2025)10.31234/osf.io/bdpjc_v4

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Samuel A. Mehr

Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition

Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal(2020)10.1525/mp.2020.37.3.185

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

158 citations

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, Martin Clayton, Erin E. Hannon, Henkjan Honing, John R. Iversen +15 more

Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.06.26.661759

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Sarah C. Woolley, Jon T. Sakata, Courtney B. Hilton, Michael J. Ryan, Samuel A. Mehr +1 more

Origins of music in credible signaling

Behavioral and Brain Sciences(2020)10.1017/s0140525x20000345

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

260 citations

Max M. Krasnow, Gregory A. Bryant, Edward H. Hagen, Samuel A. Mehr

Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact

Trends in Cognitive Sciences(2020)10.1016/j.tics.2020.06.004

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

126 citations

Kimberly Scott, Candice M. Mills, Elika Bergelson, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Elizabeth S. Spelke +11 more

Samuel A. Mehr

Indexed papers

Top data-sharing exemplar

Papers