Jessica Grahn
American music neuroscientist
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Jessica Adrienne Grahn is an American music neuroscientist. She is the director of the Human Cognitive and Sensorimotor Core[1] of the University of Western Ontario's Brain and Mind Institute. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Grahn was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
PhD, 2005, Wolfson College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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| Academic background | |
| Education | BMus, Piano Performance, 1999, BA, Neuroscience, 1999, Northwestern University PhD, 2005, Wolfson College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | Behavioural and Functional Imaging Studies of Rhythm Processing (2005) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Western Ontario University of Cambridge |
| Website | jessicagrahn |
Early life and education
Grahn completed her degrees in Neuroscience and Piano Performance from Northwestern University and her PhD from the University of Cambridge.[2] Grahn was awarded the 2001 Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study in England.[3]
Career
Grahn left the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit[4] at the University of Cambridge in 2010 when she was offered a position at the University of Western Ontario (UWO).[5] At UWO, she established the Neuroscience and Music Lab[6] at the Brain and Mind Institute with assistance from the Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund in 2012.[7] She also received an Ontario Early Researcher Award to "make new discoveries while helping to build their research teams."[8] The Neuroscience and Music Lab was devised to study timing, rhythm and movement by understanding how the brain processes music.[7] In the same year, Grahn was awarded a grant from the Grammy Foundation for her ongoing research in studying how the brain senses and reacts to music.[9]
Grahn is interested in studying the Mozart Effect, and in 2014 she gave a talk[10] at Western University of Health Sciences.
In 2015, Grahn was promoted to the rank of associate professor in the Department of Psychology and received the 2016 Faculty Scholars Award.[11] The following year, she was elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.[12] In 2018, Grahn and Robert Zatorre at McGill University were co-recipients of a McGill-Western Collaboration Grant to "create an auditory-oriented multimodal neuroimaging database, giving researchers access to neural circuitry data to test new hypotheses and serve as a baseline for studies involving disorders of hearing."[13]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Grahn was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.[14]
In 2019 Jessica earned a Canada price named "CRSNG"[15]