Current lab members

Dr. Rebecca Schaefer
Associate Professor
Health, Medical & Neuropsychology
Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
r.s.schaefer ‘at’ fsw.leidenuniv.nl
+31 (0)71 527 6748
CV Sept ’15

Dr. Georgina Floridou
British Academy Fellow
Primary affiliation: University of Sheffield, UK
Postdoc
Projects: EEG of moving to imagined music, Imagery questionnaire validation

Mohammed Mudarris, MSc
PhD candidate (main promotor: Dr. Judy Veldhuijzen & Prof. Serge Rombouts)
Fellowship Jeddah University
Thesis topic: Neural plasticity in cued movement learning

 Johanna Perschl, MSc
PhD candidate (main promotor: Prof Tom Fritz, MPI Leipzig
Thesis topic: Music-based movement and social cognition

Theo Dimitriadis, MA
PhD Candidate & Music therapist (main promotor: Prof. Andrea Evers)
Amstelring, Amsterdam
Thesis topic: The role of motivation in rehabilitation

Ned McGowan, MMus
Leiden Academy for Creative and Performing Arts
PhD candidate (main promotor: Prof Marcel Cobussen)
Thesis title: The human speed of music

Marijn Coers, MSc
Researcher
Projects: Musical EMDR in EEG, EEG of moving imagined music

Marije Dijkman, MSc
Clinical Neuropsychologist, guest researcher
Project: Music and memory in dementia

Joram van Ketel, MSc
Teaching & Research support
Projects: All

Kim Di Lorenzo
MSc thesis student
Project: Music therapy screening instrument

Jonathan Wong Chung
MSc thesis student
Project: Longitudinal aging study

Eric van Honk
MSc thesis student
Project: Experience of complex rhythms

Laura Kuijper
RM-MSc thesis student
Project: Syncopation and pleasure

Maria Diaz Castiella
MSc research intern
Project: Music preference and cortisol

Mladena Aleksic
RM-MSc research intern
Project: Music preference and cortisol

Previous members

PhD’s

Susan Williams
Leiden Academy for Creative and Performing Arts
PhD candidate (main promotor: Prof Henk Borgdorff)
Thesis title: Practicing Musical Intention: a holistic approach to developing musicians’ expertise

Research assistants & interns

Armands Zelčs
MSc Research intern
Various projects

Vani Pillay
MSc Research intern
Musical gaming and attention

Andres von Schnehen
MSc research intern, University of Amsterdam
Project: musical reward and 7T imaging

Iza Korsmit
Research assistant
Project: Rhythm & pleasure

Lisa Frenkel
MSc thesis student & research intern
Projects: Predictors of cued movement, live EEG of music listening

Sofia Kalaitzaikis
MSc Research intern
7T imaging in basal ganglia

Ayesha Hamilton
MSc student & Research Assistant
Project: Music imagery & motor learning

Dion Stevers
Research intern
University of Amsterdam
Project: Rhythm & pleasure in neuroimaging

Mick Roché
Research intern
University of Amsterdam
Project: Rhythm & pleasure in neuroimaging

Benedetta de la Rosa
Research intern
Project: Music & motor learning

Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen
MSc student, research intern
University of Amsterdam
Project: Music familiarity and cognition in older adults

Joyce de Bruin, MSc
Research Assistant
Project: all

Marijn Coers, MSc
Research assistant & thesis student
Projects: Musical EMDR in EEG, EEG of moving imagined music

Daniel Myles
MSc student, research internship
Lab support, projects: all

MSc thesis students

Mara ven der Burgt, project: Rhythmic skills in autism
Juliet Thiele, project: Rhythmic skills in autism
Meike Pellemans, project: Music preference and cortisol
Alexandra Heidelberger, project: Music preference and cortisol
Dion de Lange, project: Syncopation, repetition and urge to move
Sherilynn van der Schoor, project: Predictors of cued movement
Maya Classen, project: Predictors of cued movement
Cyriel van Veelen, project: Overstimulation and fatigue in cued movement
Johanna Perschl, project in Leipzig with Dr. Tom Fritz: Music-based exercise in clinical populations
Mohammed Mudarris, project: Predictors of cued movement
Angie Tryfona, project: Predictors of cued movement
Hella van Muijden, project: Clinical screening of musical functioning
Sophie Kroes, project: Rhythm complexity and pleasure
Victoria Chapellier, project: Cue complexity and cued motor learning
Anna Maria Trampadourou, project: Imagery ability and cued motor learning
Iria Megagianni, project: Influence of instruction type on cued motor learning
Celeste van Wendel, project: Imagery & aging
Fida Buijse, project: Imagery & aging
Roxanne Espineira, project: Imagery & aging
Feya Nolet, project: Music familiarity and cognition in older adults
Chloë Priem, project: Music-induced arousal and mental rotation
Andy Meijer, project: Emotion, gender and mental rotation in older adults
Annick Den Hartog, project: EEG of moving to imagined movement
Angelique van ‘t Hof, project: Cognitive aspects of moving to imagined music
Frouke Hardeveld de Jong, project: Imagery ability and ageing
Muazzez Demirel, project: Cognitive aspects of movement and metaphor
Elianne van Egmond, project: Musical cue complexity and motor timing
Marlou Gosman, project: Cognitive aspects of movement and metaphor
Tessa Overboom, project: Music preference and cognition
Jade Verheijen, project: Music-induced arousal and cognition