Solena D. Mednicoff, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Information
Solena (she/her) is a post-doctoral researcher working with Drs. Erin Hannon, Joel Snyder, and Stephen Benning to study Misophonia. Her research interests include the neuroscience behind why we enjoy music and how the brain interprets and responds to music. Growing up in Las Vegas, Solena trained as a semi-professional pianist and graduated from the local performing arts high school. After high school, Solena discovered her passion for science at University of Nevada, Reno where she earned a B.S. in Neuroscience and minor in piano performance. Solena went on to earn her Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences, with an emphasis in Cognitive Neuroscience, at UC Irvine where her dissertation examined the cognitive and neural mechanisms of major/minor musical mode processing.
Notable Published Works
Auditory affective processing, musicality, and the development of misophonic reactions [September 2022] by Solena D. Mednicoff, Sivan Barashy, Destiny Gonzales, Stephen D. Benning, Joel S. Snyder, and Erin E. Hannon [Frontiers in Neuroscience]