The Music Lab

The Music Lab is based jointly at the University of Auckland (in New Zealand, as a part of the School of Psychology) and Yale University (in New Haven, as a part of the Yale Child Study Center). The Music Lab team explores and studies cross-cultural music and the human mind. They do basic cognitive science experiments with many different populations and with people who live all over the world, including in small-scale societies. They also work on large corpus studies of ethnographies and field recordings from the Natural History of Song project, which they host.