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Sandra Trehub

{{Short description|Canadian psychologist (1938–2023)}}

Sandra Trehub (May 21, 1938 — January 20, 2023) was a Canadian psychologist recognized for her research in the psychology of music. She completed her PhD in psychology at McGill University, and subsequently joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at University of Toronto Mississauga, where she spent her entire career.{{Cite news |last=Whang |first=Oliver |date=16 February 2023 |title=Sandra Trehub, Pioneer in the Psychology of Music, Dies at 84 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/science/sandra-trehub-dead.html |access-date=23 September 2024}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Sandra Trehub {{!}} Department of Psychology |url=https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/psychology/people/faculty/sandra-trehub |access-date=2019-12-21 |website=University of Toronto}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-nov-14-2015-1.3317976/singing-calms-babies-more-than-talking-1.3318231|title=Singing Calms Babies More than Talking|date=2015-11-15|website=CBC Radio {{!}} Quirks and Quarks|access-date=2019-12-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/sing-song-soothe-your-baby|title=Sing a song to soothe your baby {{!}} University of Toronto Mississauga|website=www.utm.utoronto.ca|date=11 November 2015 |access-date=2019-12-21}}{{Cite journal|last1=Corbeil|first1=Mariève|last2=Trehub|first2=Sandra E.|last3=Peretz|first3=Isabelle|date=2016|title=Singing Delays the Onset of Infant Distress|journal=Infancy|language=en|volume=21|issue=3|pages=373|doi=10.1111/infa.12114}}

Trehub died on January 20, 2023. She 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 psychology of music.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}

Selected works

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  • {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/1128803|jstor=1128803|title=The Discrimination of Foreign Speech Contrasts by Infants and Adults|journal=Child Development|volume=47|issue=2|pages=466–472|year=1976|last1=Trehub|first1=Sandra E.}}
  • {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/1130133|jstor=1130133|title=Infants' Perception of Melodies: The Role of Melodic Contour|journal=Child Development|volume=55|issue=3|pages=821–30|year=1984|last1=Trehub|first1=Sandra E.|last2=Bull|first2=Dale|last3=Thorpe|first3=Leigh A.|pmid=6734320}}
  • {{cite journal|doi=10.1037/0096-1523.18.2.394|title=A comparison of infants' and adults' sensitivity to Western musical structure|journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance|volume=18|issue=2|pages=394–402|year=1992|last1=Trainor|first1=Laurel J.|last2=Trehub|first2=Sandra E.|pmid=1593226}}
  • {{cite journal|doi=10.1038/nn1084|pmid=12830157|title=The developmental origins of musicality|journal=Nature Neuroscience|volume=6|issue=7|pages=669–673|year=2003|last1=Trehub|first1=Sandra E.|s2cid=18964113}}
  • {{cite book |last=Trehub |first=Sandra |editor-last1=Peretz |editor-first1=Isabelle |editor-link=Isabelle Peretz |editor-last2=Zatorre |editor-first2=Robert J. |year=2003 |title=The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music |chapter=Musical Predispositions in Infancy: An Update |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-852519-6 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=q9t1DwAAQBAJ}} }}
  • {{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00779.x|pmid=15660851|title=Metrical Categories in Infancy and Adulthood|journal=Psychological Science|volume=16|issue=1|pages=48–55|year=2005|last1=Hannon|first1=Erin E.|last2=Trehub|first2=Sandra E.|s2cid=5740696|url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6170j46c}}
  • {{cite journal|doi=10.1073/pnas.0504254102|pmid=16105946|pmc=1194930|title=Tuning in to musical rhythms: Infants learn more readily than adults|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=102|issue=35|pages=12639–12643|year=2005|last1=Hannon|first1=E. E.|last2=Trehub|first2=S. E.|bibcode=2005PNAS..10212639H|doi-access=free}}
  • {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.cognition.2005.11.006|pmid=16380107|title=Infant music perception: Domain-general or domain-specific mechanisms?|journal=Cognition|volume=100|pages=73–99|year=2006|last1=Trehub|first1=Sandra E.|last2=Hannon|first2=Erin E.|issue=1|s2cid=21506075}}

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Category:1938 births

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Category:McGill University Faculty of Science alumni

Category:Academic staff of the University of Toronto

Category:Canadian women psychologists

Category:Music psychologists

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