Teresa Lesiuk

University of Miami | UM · Department of Music Education and Music Therapy

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is commonly associated with motor symptoms; however, many patients with PD exhibit decline in executive functions. Executive functions refer to a broad array of generalized cognitive abilities such as cognitive control and working memory. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the impact of a novel intense group piano...

Music listening interventions such as Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation can improve mobility, balance, and gait in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Yet, the impact of music training on executive functions is not yet known. Deficits in executive functions (e.g., attention, processing speed) in patients with PD result in gait interference, deficits in emotional...

Problems with attention and symptom distress are common clinical features reported by women who receive adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. Mindfulness practice significantly improves attention and mindfulness programs significantly reduce symptom distress in patients with cancer, and, more specifically, in women with breast cancer. Recently,...

To explore the efficacy of mindfulness- based music therapy (MBMT) to improve attention and decrease mood distress experienced by women with breast cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. . Quantitative, descriptive, longitudinal approach. . A comprehensive cancer hospital and a university in southern Florida. . 15 women with a diagnosis of br...

This study examined differences in music perception between children with executive function deficits (EF deficits) and typically-developing children. The role of executive functions in music perception ability was also examined. Participants included 71 children (40 males), aged 9-11 years. The study utilized a between-subjects control group desig...

This research examined the effect of music use, personality and prior knowledge on mood and work performance of 62 Systems Analysts. Although the quality of the data modeling task did not appear to be affected by the experimental treatment of 10 minutes of music listening, the level of extraversion, modeling proficiency, and theoretical knowledge r...

Impairments in attention are commonly seen in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). While visual attention assessment measurements have been rigorously developed and frequently used in cognitive neurorehabilitation, there is a paucity of auditory attention assessment measurements for patients with TBI. The purpose of this study was to fiel...

This research examined the effect of music use, personality and prior knowledge on mood and work performance of 62 Systems Analysts. Although the quality of the data modeling task did not appear tobe affected by the experimental treatment of 10 minutes of music listening, the level of extraversion, modeling proficiency, and theoretical knowledge re...

There is stress in the computer information systems industry that affects work performanceand employee wellness [1, 2, 3]. The nature of the business of creating information systems iscompetitive and frequently involves aggressive deadlines. The designers and developers ofthese systems are required to be highly innovative and efficient in the face...

Mild positive affect has been shown in the psychological literature to improve cognitive skills of creative problem-solving and systematic thinking. Individual preferred music listening offers opportunity for improved positive affect. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of preferred music listening on state-mood and cognitive perfor...

This research examines personality type, trait mood, and use of music listening by 32 professional computer information systems developers CISD from two different IT environments in south Florida. Improved quality-of-work via use of individually preferred music listening has previously been reported in CISD. Music listening, offering an opportunity...

The effect of preferred music listening on stress levels of 33 air traffic controllers (31 males, mean age = 34) was examined. A stratified random sample was employed to evenly represent Extraversion-Introversion and Low-High-Trait Anxiety in the experimental conditions. The control condition was sitting in silence, while the experimental condition...

This study measured the effect of music listening on state positive affect, work quality and time-on-task of computer information systems developers. Effects of music on work performance, in this case, software design, may be explained by increases in state positive affect. Data from 56 (male = 41, female = 15) developers were obtained from four di...

Information systems professionals are experiencing workplace stress and loss of productivity during the design and coding phases of systems development. This study focused on the effect of music listening on anxiety and task achievement in a computer programming exercise. Subjects were 72 undergraduate students enrolled in an "Introduction to Progr...