Henkjan Honing (1959) is professor in Music Cognition at both the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He conducts his research under the auspices of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the University of Amsterdam's Brain and Cognition (ABC) Center.

Honing obtained his PhD at City University (London) in 1991 with research into the representation of time and temporal structure in music. During the period between 1992 and 1997, he worked as a KNAW Research Fellow (Academieonderzoeker) at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), where he conducted a study on the formalization of musical knowledge. Up until 2003, he worked as a research coordinator at the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI) where he specialized in the computational modeling of music cognition. In 2007, he was appointed Associate Professor in Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam's Musicology capacity group. In 2010 he was awarded the KNAW-Hendrik Muller chair, designated on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2012 he was appointed strategic Professor of Cognitive and Computational Musicology, and in 2014 he became full professor in Music Cognition at both the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam.

He is known as a passionate researcher in this new interdisciplinary field that gives us fundamental insights in the cognitive mechanisms underlying musicality. Honing has authored over 150 international publications in the area of music cognition and music technology. He recently published a book for the general public entitled Iedereen is muzikaal. Wat we weten over het luisteren naar muziek (Nieuw Amsterdam, 2009/2012), published in English as Musical Cognition: A Science of Listening (Transaction Publishers, 2011), and introduced at the 2011 edition of TEDxAmsterdam.

Henkjan Honing is the Distinguished Lorentz Fellow 2013/14, a prize granted by the Lorentz Center for the Sciences and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Music Cognition Group

The Music Cognition Group (MCG) is part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), and Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and is housed at Science Park Amsterdam.

For an overview of the group members see here.

The research of the MCG has a special focus on the temporal and melodic aspects of music using theoretical, empirical and computational methods. The current research program addresses the following research questions:

1. Cognition, Biology and the Origins of Musicality (2015-...)
2. What is shared (and what unique) in music versus language processing? (NWO-Horizon, 2013-2017)
3. What are the music structural and cognitive components that contribute to the memory, recall and transmission of melodies? (NWO-CATCH and KNAW-Tunes & Tales, 2012-2016)
4. What are the cognitive mechanisms and neurological correlates of rhythm perception? (UvA-CSCA, 2011-2015)
5. What are the cognitive and biological building blocks of musicality? (KNAW-Muller chair and Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship, 2010-2014)

Musical Cognition

Transaction Publishers, 2011/2013

Iedereen is muzikaal

Nieuw Amsterdam uitgevers, 2009/2012

The Illiterate Listener

Amsterdam University Press, 2011.

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De ongeletterde luisteraar

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 2010.

GRATIS DOWNLOAD (Inaugural Lecture 2010, published in Dutch both at AUP and KNAW; Dutch version can be downloaded for free via KNAW, paper-copies are available via AUP)

Op zoek naar wat ons muzikale dieren maakt

Nieuw Amsterdam uitgevers, 2012

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• Publications can be downloaded from here.

• Speakers Academy
  Lezingen over muziek, muziekcognitie en muzikaliteit
• Speakers Academy
  Geven van lezingen
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