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:

Dr. Maggie McMullin, recent alumna of the ACNL, has started a post-doctoral fellowship at the Genetics of Auditory and visual Perception and Plasticity Lab at the University of Florida. And Dr. Rodica Constantine, who also worked in the ACNL, has started a post-doctoral fellowship at the Conscious Audition and Scene Analysis Lab at the University of Central Florida. Congratulations Maggie and Rodica 🥳🥳🥳!!!!

Joel is now an Associate Editor for the APA journal 'Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts'.

Rose, David, Isabella, Dylan, and Joel had presentations at the APCAM and Psychonomic Society conferences in Denver in November.

Commentary on the Information Integration Theory of consciousness is out in Nature Neuroscience (also see responses to our commentary by the IIT people and a more neutral pair of scientists). Relatedly, Joel was interviewed for a New York Times story on our commentary and also the new empirical findings by the Cogitate consortium in Nature, and appeared on the Neuro Network Podcast discussing these issues.

Review article out in Nature Reviews Psychology on musical rhythm, beat, and meter, by Joel Snyder, Reyna Gordon, and Erin Hannon, plus a companion editorial! We focus especially on oscillator and predictive coding mechanisms, and also review recent progress on development and genetics.

Two new articles published!! One is first-authored by Maggie McMullin about perception of natural auditory scenes and is in Open Mind. The other is first-authored by Solena Mednicoff about the connections between misophonia, ASMR, and musical chills and appears in a special issue on 'Sensing and Feeling' in Phil Trans B.

Maggie McMullin was interviewed on a podcast about her work on perception of natural auditory scenes.