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In 2011, Jessica Grahn joined the Psychology department and the Brain and Mind Institute (now Western Centre for Brain and Mind) at Western University. She has degrees in Neuroscience and Piano Performance from Northwestern University, as well as a PhD from the University of Cambridge University (conducted at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit). She has received the Charles Darwin Award in Public Communication of Science from the British Science Association, the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario government, and a New Investigator Award from CIHR. Her research is supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation (through an Understanding Human Cognition Scholar Award), the GRAMMY foundation, Parkinson Society Canada, BrainsCAN, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and all three major Canadian research councils.