Jessica Adrienne Grahn is an American music neuroscientist. She is the director of the Human Cognitive and Sensorimotor Core of the

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's Brain and Mind Institute. During the

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, Grahn was named to the

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's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Early life and education

Grahn completed her degrees in Neuroscience and Piano Performance from

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and her PhD from the

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. Grahn was awarded the 2001 Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study in England.

Career

Grahn left the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge in 2010 when she was offered a position at the

(UWO). At UWO, she established the Neuroscience and Music Lab at the Brain and Mind Institute with assistance from the

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Leaders Opportunity Fund in 2012. She also received an Ontario Early Researcher Award to "make new discoveries while helping to build their research teams." The Neuroscience and Music Lab was devised to study timing, rhythm and movement by understanding how the brain processes music. In the same year, Grahn was awarded a grant from the

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for her ongoing research in studying how the brain senses and reacts to music. In 2015, Grahn was promoted to the rank of

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in the Department of Psychology and received the 2016 Faculty Scholars Award. The following year, she was elected a Fellow of the

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. In 2018, Grahn and

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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." During the

, Grahn was named to the

's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grahn, Jessica Living people Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario Northwestern University alumni Academics of the University of Cambridge Alumni of Wolfson College, Cambridge Canadian women neuroscientists Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science Year of birth missing (living people)