Lidya Yurdum
Research Assistant, Haskins Laboratories
Education
MSc Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 2022
Major in Brain and Cognition, Minor in Psychological Methods
BA Psychology, Boğaziçi University, 2019
Research Overview
My research interests lie in the intersection of culture and communication. I study the cross-cultural communication of human song, emotions, and facial expressions
Grant Support
NIH (DP5-OD024566), “Psychological functions of music in infancy”, S. Mehr, PI
Recent Publications
Bainbridge, C. M., Bertolo, M., Youngers, J., Atwood, S., Yurdum, L., Simson, J., … & Mehr, S. A. (2021). Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(2), 256-264.
Yurdum, L., Singh, M., Glowacki, L., Vardy, T., Atkinson, Q., Hilton, C. B., … & Mehr, S. (2022). Cultural invariance in musical communication. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).