Hi this is the "A Sharp, Not A Flat" team. As you can see from the name of our team, we are focused on connecting music with brain plasticity in order to solve wide spread social issues.
Meet and Greet our A# Teammates:
Giny Jang
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Year: 2021
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Major: Economics and Cognitive Science, minor in French
Interests: Just as you can see from our team's general interest, music is a great part of my life. At Penn, I play the keyboard for the Korean rock band, Kapacity, and during my free time, I enjoy visiting jazz bars (obviously it's the jazz part I'm into :p). Because music affects my behavior and thinking, I am more or less interested in how it affects others as well.
Gabriella Rabito
Hometown: Long Island, New York
Year: 2023
School: College of Arts and Sciences
Major: Political Science (American Politics) and Biological Basis of Behavior
Interests: As a musician myself, I am quite interested in music’s influence, both biological and psychological, in our daily lifestyles and in patients who suffer from brain disorders. Outside the scope of our moonshot, I am interested in American legislation, specifically in healthcare and the criminal justice system. For fun, I love singing to indie/alternative/broadway music, and playing the violin, guitar and ukulele!
Our Common Interests
- Music app or program that personalizes sounds/wavelengths that affect the part of the brain connected to hormonal secretion
- Curing mental illness with music (e.g. Personalized music to help depressed patients)
- Music’s influence before and after a traumatic brain injury, affecting movement and cognition
- Dive into musical therapy