Sandra Trehub (1938 — January 20, 2023) was a Canadian psychologist recognized for her research in the field of music psychology. She held the position of Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.^[1]

Biography

Trehub completed her PhD in psychology at McGill University, and subsequently joined the faculty at the University of Toronto.^[2]

Trehub conducted research on the development of auditory perception among infants and young children. She also conducted research on the impacts of singing to infants in the course of caregiving.^[1] 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.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Trehub died on January 20, 2023.^[6]^[7]

Awards

Trehub was awarded the Society for Music Perception and Cognition Achievement Award in 2013.^[8] 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 music psychology.^[8]

Selected works

Trehub, Sandra E. (1976). "The Discrimination of Foreign Speech Contrasts by Infants and Adults". Child Development. 47 (2): 466–472. doi:10.2307/1128803. JSTOR 1128803.
Trehub, Sandra E.; Bull, Dale; Thorpe, Leigh A. (1984). "Infants' Perception of Melodies: The Role of Melodic Contour". Child Development. 55 (3): 821–30. doi:10.2307/1130133. JSTOR 1130133. PMID 6734320.
Trainor, Laurel J.; Trehub, Sandra E. (1992). "A comparison of infants' and adults' sensitivity to Western musical structure". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 18 (2): 394–402. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.18.2.394. PMID 1593226.
Trehub, Sandra E. (2003). "The developmental origins of musicality". Nature Neuroscience. 6 (7): 669–673. doi:10.1038/nn1084. PMID 12830157. S2CID 18964113.
Trehub, Sandra (2003). "Musical Predispositions in Infancy: An Update". In Peretz, Isabelle; Zatorre, Robert J. (eds.). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-852519-6.
Hannon, Erin E.; Trehub, Sandra E. (2005). "Metrical Categories in Infancy and Adulthood". Psychological Science. 16 (1): 48–55. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00779.x. PMID 15660851. S2CID 5740696.
Hannon, E. E.; Trehub, S. E. (2005). "Tuning in to musical rhythms: Infants learn more readily than adults". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (35): 12639–12643. Bibcode:2005PNAS..10212639H. doi:10.1073/pnas.0504254102. PMC 1194930. PMID 16105946.
Trehub, Sandra E.; Hannon, Erin E. (2006). "Infant music perception: Domain-general or domain-specific mechanisms?". Cognition. 100 (1): 73–99. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2005.11.006. PMID 16380107. S2CID 21506075.

References

^ ^a ^b "Sandra Trehub | Department of Psychology". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
^ "AIRS 2nd Annual Meeting Abstracts | AIRS: Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing". www.airsplace.ca. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
^ "Singing Calms Babies More than Talking". CBC Radio | Quirks and Quarks. 2015-11-15. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
^ "Sing a song to soothe your baby | University of Toronto Mississauga". www.utm.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
^ Corbeil, Mariève; Trehub, Sandra E.; Peretz, Isabelle (2016). "Singing Delays the Onset of Infant Distress". Infancy. 21 (3): 373. doi:10.1111/infa.12114.
^ "It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to BRAMS member Sandra Trehub, who passed away unexpectedly". BRAMS on Twitter. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
^ "I just heard that one of my heroins, Sandra Trehub 'died on Friday, suddenly and peacefully, and she was buried today.' She was great". Henkjan Honing on Twitter. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Music Perception and Cognition Achievement Awards". www.musicperception.org. Retrieved 2019-12-21.

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Areas	Biomusicology Cognitive musicology Cognitive neuroscience of music Culture in music cognition Evolutionary musicology Psychoacoustics
Topics	Absolute pitch Auditory illusion Auditory imagery Background music Consonance and dissonance Deutsch's scale illusion Earworm Embodied music cognition Entrainment Exercise and music Eye movement in music reading Franssen effect Generative theory of tonal music Glissando illusion Hedonic music consumption model Illusory continuity of tones Levitin effect Lipps–Meyer law Melodic expectation Melodic fission Mozart effect Music and emotion Music and movement Music in psychological operations Music preference Music-related memory Musical gesture Musical semantics Musical syntax Octave illusion Relative pitch Sharawadji effect Shepard tone Speech-to-song illusion Temporal dynamics of music and language Tonal memory Tritone paradox
Disorders	Amusia Auditory arrhythmia Beat deafness Musical hallucinations Musician's dystonia Music-specific disorders Tone deafness
Related fields	Aesthetics of music Bioacoustics Ethnomusicology Hearing Melodic intonation therapy Music education Music therapy Musical acoustics Musicology Neurologic music therapy Neuronal encoding of sound Performance science Philosophy of music Psychoanalysis and music Sociomusicology Systematic musicology Zoomusicology
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Books and journals	Music Perception Musicae Scientiae (journal) Musicophilia Music, Thought, and Feeling Psychology of Music (journal) The World in Six Songs This Is Your Brain on Music

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