Miriam Akkermann in conversation about the ‘Lullaby’ research project

14.2.2025

Miriam Akkermann has held the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Professorship at Freie Universität Berlin since the summer semester of 2024. In conversation with Axel Dorloff, she talks about her current research project ‘Lullaby’

Miriam Akkermann is investigating how music influences our dreams and what mechanisms are involved. This includes questions such as: What effects does music have on the process of falling asleep and on sleeping people? What kind of music has what effect? And how much does the effect of lullabies depend on them being embedded in one’s own cultural context?
You can listen to the conversation in the audio library (in german)