Rebecca Schaefer
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. R.S. Schaefer
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6748
- r.s.schaefer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8859-3730
Summary
Rebecca Schaefer is an associate professor in the Health, Medical- and Neuropsychology unit, and leads the 'Music, Brain, Health & Technology'-group. Before coming to Leiden University, she held a SAGE Jr research fellowship at UC Santa Barbara, USA, and a European Marie Curie fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She completed a PhD work at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior of Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, after receiving MSc's in Clinical Neuropsychology and Music Cognition from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Keele University, UK, respectively. She is also on the staff of the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, supervising research and providing teaching. Recent updates and a full cv can be found at www.rebeccaschaefer.net.
Research
The research carried out by the 'Music, Brain, Health & Technology'-group is mainly focused on clinical applications of music and the related neural processes, as well as the possibilities of novel technological advances towards the use of music technology for health. Examples of topic areas are moving to music, music imagery, and effects of music on other functions, such as cognition or reward, but also the underlying principles of learning musical skills. Based in Clinical Neuropsychology, music psychology and cognitive neuroscience, our work aims to better understand musical interactions and harness these in clinical applications, based on behavioral and neural measures. To this end, we collaborate with various other fields of expertise, such as AI and computational musicology, composers, music therapists, and medical specialisms.
Teaching
Rebecca teaches in the Bachelor Psychology and the Master specialization Clinical Neuropsychology, supervising MSc theses. As part of the Minor ‘Music Studies’ she also teaches a module on ‘Music Cognition’ at the Faculty of Humanities.
Grants
- SNAAR festival: Een toegankelijke verbinding tussen muziek en wetenschap. [SNAAR Festival: an accessible connection between music and science] NWA-WECOM, 2020, €50K
- Aspasia grant NWO, 2019-2023, €150K
- Playing towards health: Evidence-based musical games for movement recovery. Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, afgeslagen voor SAGE Fellowship, £200K
- Scottish Music and Health Network. Carnegie Trust Larger Grant, 2013-2015, £50K (co-aanvrager)
- MUSICMOVES: Let the music move you: involvement of motor networks of the brain in music processing. FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF grant, 2011-2013, €200K
Relevant links
Associate Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Gezondheids, Medische- Neuropsychologie
Associate professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Academie der Kunsten
- Dimitriadis T., Mudarris M.A.A., Veldhuijzen D.S., Evers A.W.M., Magee W.L. & Schaefer R.S. (2024), Music therapy with adults in the subacute phase after stroke: a study protocol, Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications 41: 101340 (101340).
- van ‘t Hooft J.J., Hartog W.L., Braun M., Boessen D., Fieldhouse J.L.P., Engelen M.E. van, Singleton E.H., Jaschke A.C., Schaefer R.S., Venkatraghavan V., Barkhof F., Harten A.C. van, Duits F.H., Schouws S.N.T.M., Oudega M.L., Warren J.D., Tijms B.M. & Pijnenburg Y.A.L. (2024), Musicality and social cognition in dementia: clinical and anatomical associations, Brain Communications 6: .
- Dimitriadis T., Della Porta D., Perschl J., Evers A.W.M., Magee W.L. & Schaefer R.S. (2023), Motivation and music interventions in adults: a systematic review, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 0(1): 1-30.
- Derks-Dijkman M.W., Schaefer R.S. & Kessels R.P.C. (2023), Musical mnemonics in cognitively unimpaired individuals and individuals with Alzheimer's dementia: a systematic review, Neuropsychology Review : .
- Dimitriadis T., Della Porta D., Perschl J., Evers A.W.M., Magee W.L. & Schaefer R.S. (2023), Motivation and music interventions in adults: a systematic review, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation : 1-30.
- Derks‐Dijkman M.W., Schaefer R.S., Baan‐Wessels L., van Tilborg I.A.D.A. & Kessels R.P.C. (2023), Effects of musical mnemonics on working memory performance in cognitively unimpaired older adults and persons with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, Journal of Neurophysiology 49(4): 307-320.
- Mudarris M.A. & Schaefer R.S. (2023), 23 musical training may not enhance cognitive-motor integration in healthy young adults, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 29: 540-540.
- Williams S.G., Ketel J.E. van & Schaefer R.S. (2023), Practicing Musical Intention: The effects of external focus of attention on musicians’ skill acquisition, Music & Science 6: .
- Derks-Dijkman M.W., Schaefer R.S., Stegeman M.L., van Tilborg I.D.A. & Kessels R.P.C. (2022), Effects of musical mnemonics on working memory performance in cognitively unimpaired young and older adults, Experimental Aging Research 49(4): 307-320.
- Floridou G.A., Peerdeman K.J. & Schaefer R.S. (2022), Individual differences in mental imagery in different modalities and levels of intentionality, Memory and Cognition 50(1): 29-44.
- Agres K.R., Schaefer R.S., Volk A., Hooren S. van, Holzapfel A., Dalla Bella S., Müller M., Witte M. de, Herremans D., Ramirez Melendez R., Neerincx M., Ruiz S., Meredith D., Dimitriadis T. & Magee W.L. (2021), Music, computing, and health: a roadmap for the current and future roles of music technology for health care and well-being, Music & Science 4: 1-32.
- Granot R. Spitz D. Cherki B. Loui P. Timmers R. Schaefer R.S. Vuoskoski J.K. Cárdenas-Soler R. Soares-Quadros Jr J.F. Li S Lega C Rocca S. la Martínez I.C. Tanco M. Marchiano M. Martínez-Castilla P. Pérez-Acosta G. Martínez-Ezquerro J.D. Gutiérrez-Blasco I.M. Jiménez-Dabdoub L. Coers M. Treider J.M. Greenberg D.M. Israel S. (2021), “Help! I Need Somebody”: Music as a global resource for obtaining wellbeing goals in times of crisis, Frontiers in Psychology 12: 648013.
- Harvey A., Hou L., Davidson-Kelly K., Schaefer R.S., Hong S., Mangin J.-F., Overy K. & Roberts N. (2021), Increased representation of the non-dominant hand in pianists demonstrated by measurement of 3D morphology of the central sulcus, Psychoradiology 1(2): 66-72.
- Pouw W., Proksch S., Drijvers L., Gamba M., Holler J., Kello C., Schaefer R.S. & Wiggins G.A. (2021), Multilevel rhythms in multimodal communication, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376(1835): .
- Moore E., Schaefer R.S., Bastin M.E., Roberts N. & Overy K. (2017), Diffusion tensor MRI tractography reveals increased fractional anisotropy (FA) in arcuate fasciculus following music-cued motor training, Brain and Cognition 116: 40-46.
- De Bruin J.J. & Schaefer R.S. (2017), Musical activities and cognitive enhancement in dementia. In: Colzato L.S. (Ed.), Theory-driven approaches to cognitive enhancement. Cham: Springer. 273-280.
- Moore E., Schaefer R.S., Bastin M.E., Roberts J. & Overy K. (2017), Diffusion tensor MRI tractography reveals increased fractional anisotropy in arcuate fasciculus following music-cued motor training, Brain and Cognition 116: 40-46.
- Schaefer R.S. (2017), Music in the brain: Imagery and memory. In: Ashley R. & Timmers R. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition. New York: Taylor & Francis. 25-35.
- Schaefer R.S. & Grafton S.T. (2017), Modifying movement optimization processes with music. In: LeSaffre M., Maes P.-J. & Leman M. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction. New York: Taylor & Francis. 313-320.
- Schaefer R.S., Beijer L.J., Seuskens W., Rietveld T.C. & Sadakata M. (2016), Intuitive visualizations of pitch and loudness in speech, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 23(3): 548-555.
- Schaefer R.S. & Overy K. (2015), Motor responses to a steady beat, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1337: 40-44.
- Davidson-Kelly K., Schaefer R.S., Moran N. & Overy K. (2015), "Total Inner Memory": Deliberate uses of multimodal musical imagery during performance preparation, Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain 25(1): 83-92.
- Schaefer R.S. (2014), Mental representations in musical processing and their role in action-perception loops, Empirical Musicology Review 9(3-4): 161-176.
- Schaefer Rebecca S. (2014), Images of time: Temporal aspects of auditory and movement imagination, Frontiers in Psychology 5: e877.
- Schaefer R.S. (2014), Auditory rhythmic cueing in movement rehabilitation: Findings and possible mechanisms, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 369(1658): e20130402.
- Schaefer R.S., Morcom A.M., Roberts N. & Overy K. (2014), Moving to music: Effects of heard and imagined musical cues on movement-related brain activity, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8: e774.
- Moore E., Schaefer R.S., Bastin M.E., Roberts N. & Overy K. (2014), Can musical training influence brain connectivity? Evidence from diffusion tensor MRI, Brain Sciences 4(2): 405-427.
- Schaefer R.S., Desain P. & Farquhar J. (2013), Shared processing of perception and imagery of music in decomposed EEG, NeuroImage 70: 317-326.
- Schaefer R.S., Overy K. & Nelson P. (2013), Affect and non-uniform characteristics of predictive processing in musical behaviour, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36(3): 226-227.
- Schaefer R.S., Furuya S., Smith L.M., Bohannan Kaneshiro B. & Toiviainen P. (2012), Probing neural mechanisms of music perception, cognition and performance using multivariate decoding, Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain 22(2): 168-174.
- Schaefer R.S., Farquhar J., Blokland Y., Sadakata M. & Desain P. (2011), Name that tune: Decoding music from the listening brain, NeuroImage 56(2): 843-849.
- Schaefer R.S., Vlek R.J. & Desain P. (2011), Music perception and imagery in EEG: Alpha band effects of task and stimulus, International Journal of Psychophysiology 82(3): 254-259.
- Vlek R.J., Schaefer R.S., Gielen C.C.A.M., Farquhar J.D.R. & Desain P. (2011), Shared mechanisms in perception and imagery of auditory accents, Clinical Neurophysiology 122(8): 1526-1532.
- Schaefer R.S., Vlek R.J. & Desain P. (2011), Decomposing rhythm processing: Electroencephalography of perceived and self-imposed rhythmic patterns, Psychological Research 75(2): 95-106.
- Vlek R.J., Schaefer R.S., Gielen C.C., Farquhar J.D. & Desain P. (2011), Sequenced subjective accents for brain-computer interfaces, Journal of Neural Engineering 8(3): e036002.
- Schaefer R.S., Desain P. & Suppes P. (2009), Structural decomposition of EEG signatures of melodic processing, Biological Psychology 82(3): 253-259.
- Van Gerven M., Farquhar J., Schaefer R., Vlek R., Geuze J., Nijholt A., Ramsey N., Haselager P., Vuurpijl L., Gielen S. & Desain P. (2009), The brain-computer interface cycle, Journal of Neural Engineering 6(4): e041001.
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