Author Archives: Rebecca Schaefer

March 2025To protest the government budget cuts, a relay strike is kicking off at Leiden university on March 10th! For updates, check WOinActie.

January 2025Happy to start the year with a new paper: Jochum van ‘t Hooft and his team at VUmc have published a paper on which we collaborated, about music and social cognition in dementia. Congrats Jochum!

November 2024A nationwide protest is happening in response to the Dutch government’s announced buget cuts. Join if you can, or sign the petition to support us!

August 2024Happy to report that our protocol paper on our study on music therapy in subacute stroke, with Theo Dimitriadis and Mohammed Mudarris as shared first authors, was accepted and is available here!

June 2024We had a blast at Neuromusic VII with a symposium shared with Lara Wierenga, Takako Fujioka and Florian Worschech, and Mohammed, Marijn, Theo, and Marije presenting posters!

July 2023Our systematic review on music and motivation is published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, congratulations Theo! For the rest, our team is getting ready for our presentations at ICMPC.

April 2023Our recently accepted systematic review on using musical mnemonics for working memory is available online! Really happy with this work, which also extends existing theoretical models. Congrats Marije!

January 2023Happy to announce our paper on external focus in music pedagogy is now accepted, and available here. Congrats to Susan Williams on getting this paper out!

November 2022We are seeking a Dutch-speaking PhD candidate for a position primarily in Delft, working on a musical robot for people with dementia! More information can be found here.

July 2022Happy to announce the open access availability of a newly accepted paper, entitled ‘Effects of musical mnemonics on working memory performance in cognitively unimpaired young and older adults’.