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.
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 Jessica Grahn, 2017 | |
| 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 edit
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 edit
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]
In 2015, Grahn was promoted to the rank of associate professor in the Department of Psychology and received the 2016 Faculty Scholars Award.[10] The following year, she was elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.[11] 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."[12]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Grahn was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.[13]
References edit
- ^ "Human Cognition & Sensorimotor Core - BrainsCAN - Western University". brainscan.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ "Jessica Grahn Researcher Profile". uwo.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ "Gates Scholar to study in Cambridge". northwestern.edu. March 16, 2005. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ "Staff". www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ Winders, Jason (May 17, 2010). "Adrian Owen joins Centre for Brain and Mind". news.westernu.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ "Jessica Grahn". Jessica Grahn. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ a b Winders, Jason (January 24, 2012). "Finding ties between music, the brain and how we move". news.westernu.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ "Early Researcher Awards". news.westernu.ca. May 4, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ "Neuroscientist wins Grammy award". news.westernu.ca. April 13, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ "Grahn and Richmond named as 2016 Faculty Scholars". ssc.uwo.ca. April 15, 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ "Grahn and Lomber named Fellows of the APS". ssc.uwo.ca. June 23, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ Van Brenk, Debora (November 22, 2018). "Neuroscience grants promote teamwork". news.westernu.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- ^ Rombouts, Rob (September 9, 2020). "Jessica Grahn named to College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists". ssc.uwo.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
External links edit
- Jessica Grahn publications indexed by Google Scholar