Sarah Creel

Sarah Creel is a Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California San Diego. Her main research interest is how people, especially children, form memory representations of patterns in sound. Creel investigates how preschool-aged children and adults learn to recognize words, voices, accents, and musical patterns, using eye tracking paradigms in addition to traditional behavioral measures. Creel has authored over 60 journal articles and conference proceedings papers. In 2017, she chaired the conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition at UC San Diego. Her research is has received funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Recent interests include perception-production gaps in children and second-language speakers, links between pointing accuracy measures and looking proportion measures, and accuracy of ASR models on speech outside their training data.