Henkjan Honing

Education

Honing obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at City University (London) in 1991 with research into the representation of time and temporal structure in music

Career

He is professor of 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 (American Broadcasting Company) center. 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 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. Henkjan is the older brother of the saxophonist Yuri Honing.

Honing, H. Ten Cate, C. Peretz, I.

Trehub, South. (2015). "Without it no music: Cognition, biology, and evolution of musicality".

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370: 1664. doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0088. Henkjan Honing (2011/2013): Musical Cognition. A Science of Listening.

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers

Honing, H. Ploeger, A. (2012).

"Cognition and the Evolution of Music: Pitfalls and Prospects". Topics in Cognitive Science (TopiCS) 4: 513–524. doi:10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01210.x.

Honing, H. (2013). The structure and interpretation of rhythm in music

In Deutsch, Doctorate. (ed), Psychology of Music, 3rd edition (pp 369–404). London: Academic Press. doi 10.1016/B978-0-12-381460-9.00009-2

Winkler, I.

Haden, G. Ladinig, O. Sziller, I.

Honing, H. (2009). "Newborn infants detect the beat in music".

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 2468–2471. doi:10.1073/pnas.0809035106. PubMed Central 2631079. PMID 19171894. Honing, H.; Merchant, H.

Háden, G.P.

Prado, L. Bartolo, R. (2012). "Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) detect rhythmic groups in music, but not the beat". PLoS ONE 7 (12): e51369. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051369.

Complete list of publications.

Achievements

• In 2010 he was awarded the KNAW-Hendrik Muller chair, designated on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).