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Current lab members

Dr. Rebecca Schaefer
Associate Professor
Health, Medical & Neuropsychology unit;
Institute for Psychology, as well as:
Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
Royal Conservatoire The Hague; Sonology
r.s.schaefer ‘at’ fsw.leidenuniv.nl
+31 (0)71 527 6748
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Mohammed Mudarris, MSc
PhD candidate (main promotor: Dr. Judy Veldhuijzen & Prof. Serge Rombouts)
Fellowship Jeddah University
Thesis topic: Neural plasticity in cued movement learning

Marijn Coers, MSc
PhD candidate (main promotor: Prof Ineke van der Ham)
Projects: Sonification systems for motor learning; music and emotion regulation

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

Paul Raingeard de la Blétière, MSc
PhD Candidate (main promotor: Prof Mark Neericnx, TU Delft)
Project: Musical social robotics for people with dementia

Marije Derks-Dijkman, MSc
Clinical Neuropsychologist, PhD Candidate (main promotor: Prof Roy Kessels, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Project: Music and memory functioning in MCI and dementia

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

Jeannette van Ditzhuizen, MSc
Researcher
Project: Music lessons for vulnerable groups

Joram van Ketel, MSc
PhD candidate in Economics, Leiden University
Projects: Field experiments in higher education

Students
Noor van Aken, project: Motor learning with a serious game
Paula Ballen Alonso, project: Motor learning with a serious game
Klara Berndt, project: Motor learning with a serious game
Peyman Haso, project: Musical robots for people with dementia
Defne Cetin, project: Musical serious games for motor learning
Melker Svenungsson, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Sophie Ouwejan, project: role of agency in music-cued movement
Rebecca Timphus, project: Music Therapy and attitudes towards protocols
Sophie Haayen, project: social robotics for music interactions
Youssra Boujada, project: GMSI validation
Marwa Azougagh, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Myrna Hollebrandse, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Tygo Huizer, project: social robotics for music interactions
Judith van Leeuwen, project: Musical games for children with ASD
Maissa Benhajar, project: Musical games for children with ASD

Previous members

Postdocs

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

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
Margareta Jurcovicova, project: Performance metaphors
Tessa Jansen, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Olga Ruwe (University of Amsterdam), project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Pauline Schreurs (University of Amsterdam), project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Jamie Laport, project: music therapy at the subacute stage of stroke
Alessandro Palumbo, project: Sonification for movement learning
Amy de Bruijn, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Anne Nijboer, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Hidde Heuser, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Sophie Eustace, project: Dual-task interference in musical processing
Laura Kuijper, project: SNAAR festival
Drashti Shah, project: validation of Dutch version of the Gold-MSI
Nina Hoogerland, project: SNAAR festival
Louise Meyser, projects: Classic Expression – classical music concerts for children, SNAAR festival
Maksims Libermanis, project: Classic Expression – classical music concerts for children
Theodora Christia, project: Classic Expression – classical music concerts for children
Jule Hafermann, project: Classic Expression – classical music concerts for children
Mladena Aleksic, project: Music preference and cortisol
Loubna Boutalbi, project: Online studies of music and attention
Maria Diaz Castiella, project: Music preference and cortisol
Armands Zelčs, projects: various
Vani Pillay (Utrecht University), project: Music and gaming
Andres von Schnehen (University of Amsterdam), project: musical reward and 7T imaging
Iza Korsmit (University of Amsterdam), project: Rhythm and pleasure
Lisa Frenkel, project: live EEG of music listening
Sofia Kalaitzaikis, project: 7T imaging of basal ganglia
Ayesha Hamilton, project: Music imagery and motor learning
Dion Stevers (University of Amsterdam), project: pleasure in 7T imaging
Mick Roché (University of Amsterdam), project: pleasure in 7T imaging
Benedetta de la Rosa, project: Music and motor learning
Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen (UvA), project: Music familiarity and cognition in older adults
Marijn Coers, project: EEG of moving to imagined music
Joyce de Bruin, projects: all
Daniel Myles, projects: Musical EMDR

MSc thesis students
Rut Yacob Kidanemariam, project: Tapping in children with ASD
Erin Ambler, project: Musical serious games for motor learning
Sarai Bose, Project: Music therapy in the subacute stage after stroke
Andrea Huertas Alvarez de Luna, project: Musical serious games for motor learning
Elise Besemer, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Marije van Winden, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Renske Krijt, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Myrto Petratza, projects: Music and cortisol, Musical sonification for motor learning
Yenthe Sijm, project: Music therapy in the subacute stage after stroke
Sem Schiltmeijer, project: Music therapy in the subacute stage after stroke
Rosa Brak, project: Musical games for children with ASD
Dilara Ozturk, project: Musical games for children with ASD
Tessa van Hees, project: Musical motor training in healthy elderly
Tanya Murphy, project: Dual-task interference in musical processing
Vivian de Graaff, project: Procedural learning and aging in musicians
Adrian Gutierrez, project: Dual-task interference in musical processing
Laura Kuijper, project: Syncopation and pleasure
Allyah Hassell, project: Dual-task interference in musical processing
Theodora Christia, project: Musical games and attention
Linda Alphenaar, project: Heredity of rhythm skills and cognitive ability
Marina Marrero Polegre, project: Procedural learning and aging in musicians
Nina Hoogerland, project: Procedural learning and aging in musicians
Eric van Honk, project: Rhythmic complexity, overstimulation, and musical expertise
Jonathan Wong Chung, project: Longitudinal effects of music training
Dariya Akan, project: Cognitive effects of music listening in elderly
Kim Di Lorenzo, project: Music therapy screening instrument
Mara van der Burgt, project: Rhythmic skills in autism
Juliet Thiele, project: Rhythmic skills in autism
Donatella Fontana, project: Syncopation, repetition and urge to move
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
Marijn Coers, project: Musical EMDR
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