Welcome to UNLV's Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory!

The ACNL is in the Department of Psychology @ UNLV, and was founded in 2007. We are proud to collaborate with scholars at UNLV and from around the world on projects about how the brain does sound and other topics that take advantage of our skills and interests.

News and recent publications:

Erin Hannon will be presenting Dan Berkowitz's work on development of musical groove in Helsinki in June 2024 at the Neurosciences and Music Conference.

Jordan Sundara was recently accepted to the UNLV School of Medicine for Fall 2024 🥳🥳🥳!!!

A group of consciousness researchers, including Joel, wrote an open letter critiquing some of the recent work testing theories of consciousness. It's made a splash on twitter, and is covered by Nature and New Scientist.

Joel will be participating in a public discussion panel about Music and Brain Health at UNLV on December 14. 

Karli Nave presented preliminary findings for our multi-lab replication of Nozaradan et al. (2011) at RPPW in the UK in June 2023. We presented them again at the Timing Research Forum and BTSCon in October 2023, and will again at the ARO conference in February 2024. The BTSCon talk recording can be seen here.

We presented papers on music perception and misophonia at ICMPC in Japan 🇯🇵🍣 in August 2023! See program for details.