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Erin E. Hannon Ph.D. March 2020 Curriculum Vitae Erin E. Hannon Ph.D. March 2020 Associate Professor of Psychology Director, Auditory Cognition and Development Lab University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 455030 Las Vegas, NV 89154-5030 702/895-4687 (office) 702/895-0195 (fax) 702/895-2995/895-4265 (lab) email: [email protected] webpage: http://faculty.unlv.edu/ehannon Research Interests: Cognitive and Perceptual Development ⋅ Enculturation ⋅ Cross-Cultural Psychology ⋅ Communication ⋅ Music Cognition ⋅ Rhythm Perception and Production ⋅ Music and Language Parallels ⋅ Intersensory Perception Education: Ph.D. Cornell University, Human Experimental Psychology (2005) B.A. New College of Florida (Honors College of the State of Florida), Double Concentration in Psychology and Music (2000) Academic Appointments 2013- Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 2007-2013 Assistant Professor Department of Psychology University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV Erin Hannon Vita 2 2005-2007 Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2003-2005 Visiting Graduate Student Centre for Research on Biological Communication Systems University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON 2000-2005 Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant Department of Psychology Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Honors and Recognition: Donald Schmiedel Service Award (2020) Society for Improvement of Psychological Science Mission Award, as contributor to the Many Babies1 collaboration (2019) Research Fellow, Black Mountain Institute (2017) Summer Research Stipend, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016) Cover Article Published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2007) Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College (2005) Research Support: Replication of a study for the SCORE project Department of Defense/Center for Open Science Award (2020, $9,113) P.I. Erin Hannon; Co-I. Laura Getz The Role of the Motor System in Music Perception University of Nevada, Las Vegas Top Tier Doctoral Graduate Research Assistant Award (2020-2023, $46,500) Co-P.I. Erin Hannon; P.I. Joel Snyder Musical and Linguistic Rhythm Processing in Typically Developing Children University of Nevada, Las Vegas Top Tier Doctoral Graduate Research Assistant Award (2017-2020, $46,500) P.I. Erin Hannon Origins of Domain-Specificity in Auditory Cognition National Science Foundation (BCS-1052718 / 2011-2015, $229,976) P.I. Erin Hannon Erin Hannon Vita 3 Development of Perceptual Skills Across Domains University of Nevada, Las Vegas Faculty Opportunity Award (2012-2014, $28,770) Co-P.I.: Erin Hannon and Jennifer Rennels Professional Organizations: Association for Psychological Science International Society on Infant Studies Cognitive Science Society Society for Music Perception and Cognition Cognitive Development Society Auditory Perception & Cognition Society Editorial Activities: Editorial Boards Associate Editor, Music Perception (2018-present) Associate Editor, Sage Open (2017-present) Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychology, Developmental (2010-2015) Editorial Board, Journal of Cognition and Development (2016-present) Editorial Board, Frontiers in Psychology, Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience (2011- 2017) Ad Hoc Reviewing Acta Psychologica; Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science; Attention, Perception and Psychophysics; Auditory Perception and Cognition; Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology; Child Development; Child Development Perspectives; Cognition; Cognition and Instruction; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Science; Cortex; Developmental Neuropsychology; Developmental Psychology; Developmental Science; Emotion; European Journal of Developmental Psychology; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Frontiers in Psychology (Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental); Infancy; Infant and Child Development; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Journal of Child Language; Journal of Cognition and Development; Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Language Evolution; Journal of Memory and Language; Journal of Nonverbal Behavior; Journal of Phonetics; Journal of Research in Music Education; Language Learning and Development; Learning and Individual Differences; Memory & Cognition; Music Perception; Nature Human Behaviour; Neuropsychologia; Neuropsychology; PLoS ONE; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Psychological Science; Psychology of Music; Psychological Research; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Scientific Reports Grant Reviewing Erin Hannon Vita 4 Austrian Science Fund National Endowment for the Arts Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada National Science Foundation Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Conference Reviewing Cognitive Science Society Expression, Language, and Music Conference International Conference on Infant Studies International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop Society for Music Perception and Cognition Book Reviewing Psychology of Music (textbook, Routledge Press-Taylor & Francis) How Children Develop (textbook, Worth) Publications: (*= student author) Refereed Journal Articles Frank, M.C., Alcock, K.J., Arias-Trejo, N., Aschersleben, G., Baldwin, D., Barbu, S.,….Soderstrom, M. (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/2515245919900809 Jacoby, N., Margulis, E., Clayton, M., Hannon, E.E., Honing, H., Iversen, J., Klein, T.R., Mehr, S.A., Pearson, L., Peretz, I., Perlman, M., Polak, R., Ravignani, A., Savage, P.E., Steingo, G., Stevens, C., Trainor, L.,Trehub, S.E., Veal, M., & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2020). Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights and recommendations. Music Perception, 37, 185-195. doi:10.1525/mp.2020.37.3.185 Hannon, E.E., Nave-Blodgett*, J.E., & Nave*, K.M. (2018). The developmental origins of the perception and production of musical rhythm. Child Development Perspectives, 12, 194-198. doi:10.1111/cdep.12285 Frank, M.C., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., Hamlin, J.K., Hannon, E.E., Kline, M., Levelt, C., Lew-Williams, C., Nazzi, T., Panneton, R., Rabagliati, H., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., Waxman, S., & Yurovsky, D. (2017). A collaborative approach to infant research: Promoting reproducibility, best practices, and theory-building. Infancy, 22, 421-435. doi:10.1111/infa.12182 Erin Hannon Vita 5 Hannon, E.E., Schachner, A.D., & Nave-Blodgett*, J.E. (2017). Babies know bad dancing when they see it: Older but not younger infants discriminate between synchronous and asynchronous audiovisual musical displays. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 159, 159-174. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden*, C.M., Snyder, J.S., & Hannon, E.E. (2016). Children use object-level category knowledge to detect changes in auditory scenes. Developmental Psychology, 52, 1867-1877. Pasinski*, A., Hannon, E.E., & Snyder, J.S. (2016). How musical are music video game players? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23(5), 1553. Hannon, E.E., Leveque, Y., Nave*, K., & Trehub, S.E. (2016). Exaggeration of language-specific rhythms in English and French children’s songs. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 939. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00939 Rosenthal*, M.A. & Hannon, E.E. (2016). Cues to perceiving tonal stability in music. Music Perception, 33(5), 601-612. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden*, C.M., Hannon, E.E., & Snyder, J.S. (2015a). Everyday musical experience is sufficient to perceive the speech-to-song illusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, e43-e49. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden*, C.M., Hannon, E.E., & Snyder, J.S. (2015b). Finding the music of speech: Musical knowledge influences pitch processing in speech. Cognition, 143, 135-140. Ullal*, S., Hannon, E.E., & Snyder, J.S. (2014). Tapping to a slow tempo in the presence of simple and complex musical meters reveals experience- specific biases for processing music. PLoS ONE 9(7): e102962. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102962. Ullal*, S., Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden*, C.M., Tichko, P., Lahav, A., & Hannon, E.E. (2013). Linking prenatal experience to the emerging musical mind. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. doi:10.3389/fnsys.2013.00048 Hannon, E.E., Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden*, C.M., & Tichko*, P. (2012). Effects of perceptual experience on children’s and adults’ perception of unfamiliar rhythms. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1252, 92-99. Hannon, E.E., Soley*, G., & Ullal*, S. (2012). Familiarity overrides simplicity in rhythmic pattern perception: A cross-cultural examination of American and Erin Hannon Vita 6 Turkish listeners. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38, 543-548. Thothathiri*, M., Snedeker, J., & Hannon, E.E. (2012). The effect of prosody on distributional learning in twelve- to thirteen-month-old infants. Infant and Child Development, 21, 135-145. Hannon, E.E., Soley*, G., & Levine*, R.S. (2011). Constraints on infants’ musical rhythm perception: Effects of interval ratio complexity and enculturation. Developmental Science, 14, 865-872. Schachner*, A.D., & Hannon, E.E. (2011). Infant-directed speech drives social preferences in 5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 47,
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