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I am a Research Scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, and an Associate Lecturer in Biological Psychology with the Open University. Until recently, I was a junior research fellow at Clare Hall.

As of January 2011, I will be faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario. If you are interested in research opportunities, please get in touch.

My interests: Why do we move to music? How is musical rhythm is processed in the brain? How does our brain response to musical rhythm differ from other types of sequences (more information).

Another area in which I work is using real-time fMRI to teach people how to modulate their own brain activity (neurofeedback).


Jessica Grahn, PhD

Jessica Grahn

I'm speaking at The Musical Brain, October 3rd, in London, and the Manchester Science Festival (October 25th).

Some other recent public engagement:

brain

CBU graduate students skills seminar on neuroanatomy for imagers

Step-by-step instructions for Marsbar extractions (Region of Interest analyses)


SfN 2009 poster: Effects of prior auditory exposure on brain activity during visual rhythm perception

HBM 2008 poster: Modulation of activity in motor areas by volume accents and beat perception when attending to auditory rhythms

SfN 2007 poster: Using fMRI to investigate individual differences in beat perception


Interested in gender equality issues? Check out the tutorials. Or better yet, read the book

Read the executive summary of MIT's report on the status of women in science.

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