Universality and diversity in human song SA Mehr, M Singh, D Knox, DM Ketter, D Pickens-Jones, S Atwood, ... Science 366, eaax0868:1-17, 2019 | 528 | 2019 |
Origins of music in credible signaling S Mehr, M Krasnow, G Bryant, E Hagen Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44, e60, 2020 | 224* | 2020 |
Two randomized trials provide no consistent evidence for nonmusical cognitive benefits of brief preschool music enrichment SA Mehr, A Schachner, RC Katz, ES Spelke PloS one 8 (12), e82007, 2013 | 207 | 2013 |
Form and function in human song SA Mehr, M Singh, H York, L Glowacki, MM Krasnow Current Biology 28 (3), 356-368. e5, 2018 | 192 | 2018 |
Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights, and recommendations N Jacoby, EH Margulis, M Clayton, E Hannon, H Honing, J Iversen, ... Music Perception 37 (3), 185-195, 2020 | 143* | 2020 |
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures CB Hilton, CJ Moser, M Bertolo, H Lee-Rubin, D Amir, CM Bainbridge, ... Nature Human Behaviour 6, 1545-1556, 2022 | 115* | 2022 |
For 5-month-old infants, melodies are social SA Mehr, LA Song, ES Spelke Psychological Science 27 (4), 486-501, 2016 | 104 | 2016 |
Music in the home: New evidence for an intergenerational link SA Mehr Journal of Research in Music Education 62 (1), 78-88, 2014 | 104 | 2014 |
Online developmental science to foster innovation, access, and impact M Sheskin, K Scott, CM Mills, E Bergelson, E Bonawitz, ES Spelke, ... Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24 (9), 675-678, 2020 | 98 | 2020 |
Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies C Bainbridge, M Bertolo, J Youngers, S Atwood, K Lopez, L Yurdum, ... Nature Human Behaviour 5, 256-264, 2020 | 78 | 2020 |
Parent-offspring conflict and the evolution of infant-directed song SA Mehr, MM Krasnow Evolution and Human Behavior 38 (5), 674-684, 2017 | 70 | 2017 |
Shared musical knowledge in 11‐month‐old infants SA Mehr, ES Spelke Developmental science 21 (2), e12542, 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
Language experience predicts music processing in a half-million speakers of fifty-four languages J Liu, CB Hilton, E Bergelson, SA Mehr Current Biology 33 (10), 1916-1925. e4, 2023 | 35* | 2023 |
How games can make behavioural science better B Long, J Simson, A Buxó-Lugo, DG Watson, SA Mehr Nature 613 (7944), 433-436, 2023 | 35 | 2023 |
Genomic imprinting is implicated in the psychology of music S Mehr, J Kotler, R Howard, D Haig, M Krasnow Psychological Science, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
Miscommunication of science: Music cognition research in the popular press SA Mehr Frontiers in Psychology 6, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily R Yan, G Jessani, E Spelke, P de Villiers, J de Villiers, SA Mehr Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376, 20210089, 2021 | 27 | 2021 |
Response to vocal music in Angelman syndrome contrasts with Prader-Willi syndrome J Kotler, SA Mehr, A Egner, D Haig, MM Krasnow Evolution and Human Behavior, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
Spectro-temporal acoustical markers differentiate speech from song across cultures P Albouy, SA Mehr, RS Hoyer, J Ginzburg, Y Du, RJ Zatorre Nature Communications 15 (1), 4835, 2024 | 14 | 2024 |
Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music M Singh, SA Mehr Nature reviews psychology 2 (6), 333-346, 2023 | 14 | 2023 |