Jessica Grahn

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 prize named "CRSNG"^[15]

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