• Since October 2020: Research assistant in the project "Music Intervention for Dementia and Depression in ELderly Care (MIDDEL)"
• Since May 2019: Research assistant in systematic musicology at the Institute of Music
• 01/2021: Doctorate (Dr rer nat.) in developmental psychology (summa cum laude)
• 01/2017-07/2020: Research assistant (PhD student) in the
  Department of Developmental Psychology at JLU Giessen in the DFG project: The relationship between music education and intelligence: The mediating role of executive functions
• 08/2016 - 11/2016: student assistant in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Oldenburg
• 12/2014 - 01/2016: student assistant for the BmBF project "Choral Music Culture and Migration Society" at the Arbeitskreis Musik in der Jugend (AMJ) Wolfenbüttel
• 2012 - 2016: Master's programme "Applied Musicology" with a focus on systematic musicology at the University of Oldenburg, Master of Arts
• 2012 - 2016: Master's programme for secondary school teaching (music and biology) at the University of Oldenburg, Master of Education
• 2009 - 2012: Bachelor's degree in Music and Biology at the University of Oldenburg, Bachelor of Arts

Article (peer reviewed)

Frischen, U., Degé, F., & Schwarzer, G. (2022). The relation between rhythm processing and cognitive abilities during child development: The role of prediction. Frontiers in Psychology, 13(September), 1-11. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.920513

Frischen, U., Bullack, A., Roden, I., & Kreutz, G. (2022). Short-term Effects of Listening to Music on Breathing and Emotional Affect in People Suffering From Chronic Lung Diseases. Music and Science, 5, 1-11. doi.org/10.1177/20592043221074665

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G., & Degé, F. (2022). Music training and executive functions in adults and children: what role do hot executive functions play? Zeitschrift Fur Erziehungswissenschaft, 25(3), 551-578. doi.org/10.1007/s11618-022-01103-1

Degé, F., & Frischen, U. (2022). The impact of music training on executive functions in childhood-a systematic review. Zeitschrift Fur Erziehungswissenschaft, 25(3), 579-602. doi.org/10.1007/s11618-022-01102-2

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G., & Degé, F. (2021). Music lessons enhance executive functions in 6- to 7-year-old children. Learning and Instruction, 74(December 2020). doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101442

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G. & Degé, F. (2019). Comparing the Effects of Rhythm-Based Music Training and Pitch-Based Music Training on Executive Functions in Preschoolers. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 13(August), 1-11. doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2019.00041

*Shared first authorship

Book chapter

Conference papers and lectures

Frischen, U., Bullack, A., Roden, I., & Kreutz, G. (2022). Short-term Effects of Listening to Music on Breathing and Emotional Affect in People Suffering From Chronic Lung Diseases. Music & Hearing Health Workshop, Oldenburg (Lecture)

Frischen, U. & Rasing, N. (2022). Processes of group music therapy and recreational choir singing - experiences from MIDDEL. Presentation at the symposium: Music Therapy and other music interventions in dementia care, Ankara.

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G., Degé, F. (2022). The effect of music lessons on IQ in 6- to 7-year-old children: the mediating role of inhibition. 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) in Hildesheim (Poster).

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G., Degé, F. (2019). The Association between Music Lessons and Hot as well as Cold Executive Functions in Adults and Children. International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus), Berlin (presentation).

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G., Degé, F. (2019). Do instrumental music lessons enhance executive functions and IQ in children? Joint conference of the Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology groups (presentation in the symposium: Transfer effects of music training on cognitive abilities), Leipzig.

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G., Degé, F. (2019). The influence of music lessons on executive functions and IQ in childhood. Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Eichstätt (presentation).

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G., Degé, F. (2019). The influence of different music trainings on executive functions in preschool age - Rhythm is it! Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Eichstätt (Poster).

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G., Degé, F. (2019). The Effect of Music Lessons on Executive Functions and IQ in 6-to-7-year-old Children. 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), New York City, New York, USA (presentation).

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G., Degé, F. (2019).The Effect of Music Lessons on Executive Functions in Preschoolers - Rhythm is it!? 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Baltimore, Maryland, USA (Poster).

Frischen, U., Schwarzer, G. & Degé, F. (2018). The relationship between music education and hot executive functions. Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology, 2018, Gießen (Poster).

Degé, F., Frischen, U., & Schwarzer, G. (2017). The relationship between music learning and specific cognitive abilities in 9- to 12-year-old children: The mediating role of executive functions (Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology, 2017, Hamburg (Poster).

Degé, F., Frischen, U., & Schwarzer, G. (2017). The relationship between music education and specific cognitive abilities in 9- to 12-year-old children: The mediating role of executive functions. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology Groups, Münster.