Henkjan Honing
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Henkjan Honing is a Dutch researcher and musician. He is KNAW-Muller professor in music cognition and heads the Music Cognition Group (MCG), part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
The Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam, in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate....

 (ILLC), Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA), and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and conducts research in music cognition using theoretical, empirical and computational methods. The research is supported by grants from the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
The Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek is a scientific research organization in the Netherlands....

 (NWO: Dutch Science Foundation, 'Foundations of the Humanities' programme) and the European Commission (Sixth Framework IST programme) both in the field of music cognition
Music cognition
Music cognition is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the mental processes that support musical behaviors, including perception, comprehension, memory, attention, and performance...

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Henkjan is the older brother of the saxophonist Yuri Honing.

Selected studies

  • Henkjan Honing (2011): Musical Cognition. A Science of Listening. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
  • Newborn infants detect the beat in music from István Winkler
    István Winkler
    István Winkler Hungarian psychologist.Scientific Advisor and Head of the Department of General Psychology at the...

    ; Gábor P. Haden; Olivia Ladinig; István Sziller; Henkjan Honing (2009) (abstract) PNAS
  • István Winkler
    István Winkler
    István Winkler Hungarian psychologist.Scientific Advisor and Head of the Department of General Psychology at the...

    et al., et Henkjan Honing (2009): Newborn infants detect the beat in music, early edition at PNAS (full text, pdf format)

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