Lab Director

Dr. Rebecca Lepping is an assistant professor in the KU School of Medicine Department of Neurology. She is a cognitive neuroscientist (Ph.D.), musician (M.A.) and music psychologist (M.A.) who is passionate about the power of music to affect us, improve our well-being and make our lives better. Dr. Lepping uses tools from affective neuroscience to understand why people engage with music and how they use music to regulate their mood states, experience of pain and other psychological and physiological symptoms.

• Published Papers:
  • NCBI Bibliography
  • Google Scholar Citations
• Contact:
  • Email: rlepping@kumc.edu
  • Phone: (913) 588-0287

Current Lab Members

Jasmine Taylor is a research assistant/data analyst in the KU School of Medicine Department of Neurology. Though new to the profession, she enjoys the professional and academic rigor the neurology, psychology and neuroscience fields provide. Taylor has various research interests, including research that involves the relation between music and cognition. In her spare time, she enjoys conducting personal research for her historical fiction novels, visiting art museums and supporting events rooted in the arts.

• Neo Kim – undergraduate student, University of Kansas – Lawrence
• Maxwell Palmer – undergraduate research assistant, University of Kansas – Lawrence
• Xuwen Zhao – undergraduate research assistant, University of Kansas – Lawrence

Former Lab Members

• Colin Allen – undergraduate research assistant, University of Kansas – Lawrence
• Benjamin Hess, M.S. – research assistant/data analyst, University of Kansas Medical Center 
• Lizvet Guzman-Damian, undergraduate research assistant, University of Kansas - Lawrence
• Joy Heishman, undergraduate research intern, Avila University, Kansas City, Missouri
• Teresa Otieno, MSc – research assistant/business analyst, Parkville, Missouri
• Logan Powell – medical student, Summer Research Training Program
• Salem Tesfaye – high school researcher, Olathe North High School
• Ava Zatloukal, undergraduate research assistant, University of Kansas - Lawrence

Affiliated Research Centers at KU Medical Center

• Hoglund Biomedical Imaging Center
• Quantitative Pulmonary Imaging Cores
• KU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
• Kansas Polycystic Kidney Disease Research and Translation Core Center

Collaborators

• Dr. Deanna Hanson-Abromeit, Baby-Music Intervention Research (baby-MIR) Lab, Music Therapy and Music Education, University of Kansas
• Dr. Anne Palmer, Center for Arts and Wellbeing
• Dr. Michelle Redmond, Population Health, KU School of Medicine-Wichita

Positions Available

Open positions will be posted here.