Research Seminar: Courtney Hilton

The Speaker

Courtney is a cognitive scientist who studies how minds, music, and culture interact. This has led him to do research on topics ranging from how the language you speak shapes how you perceive music, to how the sound of ‘baby talk’ varies around the world.

He is also interested in rethinking what psychology experiments look like. He does this by applying ideas from citizen science and gamification to design ways to study larger and more diverse groups of people over the internet. Participate in his latest citizen science study here.

Courtney did his PhD at the University of Sydney. He then worked for two years as a postdoc at Harvard in The Music Lab. In 2023, the lab and he both moved to the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and he has recently joined the Complex Human Data Hub as an ARC DECRA fellow.

He grew up in the country town of Gidgegannup in Western Australia and originally trained as a musician before becoming a scientist.

See here for more information.

The Seminar

In this event in a series, speakers from within the Hub, the University, and the broader research community tell us about their research. Our Research Seminar Series involves speakers covering a broad range of themes surrounding our Hub’s interests, so we’ll hopefully all learn something interesting. Whether you want to learn to inform your own research or to simply satisfy a personal curiosity, we hope to see you there.

Watch the Replay

Watch the recording of this seminar on the CHDH Youtube Channel