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Henkjan Honing
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- December 18, 2011
- 11:23 AM
- 115 views
Music Appreciation at TEDxAmsterdam
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Henkjan Honing cites studies and engages his audience in auditory participation to shed light on how absolute pitch is very common and relative pitch is very special and fundamental in music appreciation.... Read more »
Zarco, W., Merchant, H., Prado, L., & Mendez, J. (2009) Subsecond Timing in Primates: Comparison of Interval Production Between Human Subjects and Rhesus Monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 102(6), 3191-3202. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00066.2009
- December 10, 2011
- 08:45 PM
- 163 views
A case of congenital beat deafness? [Part 2]
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Isabelle Peretz told me about Mathieu during a workshop at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in November 2009. She was very excited, and I couldn’t but share her enthusiasm: She was pretty sure she found a beat-deaf person.
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Phillips-Silver, J., Toiviainen, P., Gosselin, N., Piché, O., Nozaradan, S., Palmer, C., & Peretz, I. (2011) Born to dance but beat deaf: A new form of congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.002
- December 6, 2011
- 11:00 AM
- 180 views
Which brain areas are involved in listening?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Its a persistent myth to think that music is processed in the right hemisphere. This week yet another study shows that, even when the processes are restricted to listening alone, virtually the whole brain is involved.... Read more »
Alluri, V., Toiviainen, P., Jääskeläinen, I., Glerean, E., Sams, M., & Brattico, E. (2011) Large-scale brain networks emerge from dynamic processing of musical timbre, key and rhythm. NeuroImage. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.019
Stewart L, von Kriegstein K, Warren JD, & Griffiths TD. (2006) Music and the brain: disorders of musical listening. Brain : a journal of neurology, 129(Pt 10), 2533-53. PMID: 16845129
- November 30, 2011
- 07:21 AM
- 222 views
Is beat induction species-specific? [Part 2]
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
It is a slowly but steadily unfolding story, with more and more evidence in support of it: The story revealing with what other species we share beat induction, a skill that is argued to be fundamental to music.
The ability to synchronize to the beat of the music has been demonstrated in several parrot species and, apparently, one elephant species, supporting the vocal learning and rhythmic synchronization hypothesis, which posits that vocal learning provides a neurobiological foundation for a........ Read more »
Hasegawa, A., Okanoya, K., Hasegawa, T., & Seki, Y. (2011) Rhythmic synchronization tapping to an audio–visual metronome in budgerigars. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/srep00120
- November 27, 2011
- 11:23 AM
- 140 views
TEDxAmsterdam: What makes us musical animals?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Below some fragments from a talk I gave last week at TEDxAmsterdam with the title: What makes us musical animals. In the talk I try to convince the audience that we all share a predisposition for the perception and appreciation of music, making music second nature to most human beings... Read more »
Zarco, W., Merchant, H., Prado, L., & Mendez, J. (2009) Subsecond Timing in Primates: Comparison of Interval Production Between Human Subjects and Rhesus Monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 102(6), 3191-3202. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00066.2009
- November 10, 2011
- 05:17 PM
- 36 views
Is beat induction species-specific? [Part 1]
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Beat induction (BI) is the cognitive skill that allows us to hear a regular pulse in music to which we can then synchronize. Perceiving this regularity in music allows us to dance and make music together. As such it can be considered a fundamental musical trait that, arguably, played a decisive role in the origin of music (see also earlier entries of this blog). Furthermore, BI has been argued to be a spontaneously developing, domain-specific and species-specific skill.With regard to the first a........ Read more »
Fitch, W. (2009) Biology of Music: Another One Bites the Dust. Current Biology, 19(10). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.04.004
Honing H, Ladinig O, Háden GP, & Winkler I. (2009) Is beat induction innate or learned? Probing emergent meter perception in adults and newborns using event-related brain potentials. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 93-6. PMID: 19673760
Zarco, W., Merchant, H., Prado, L., & Mendez, J. (2009) Subsecond Timing in Primates: Comparison of Interval Production Between Human Subjects and Rhesus Monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 102(6), 3191-3202. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00066.2009
- November 10, 2011
- 05:04 PM
- 66 views
What is the role of consciousness in auditory perception?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
István WinklerOn Tuesday 15 November 2011 prof. dr István Winkler (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) will give the monthly CSCA lecture in Amsterdam. He is visiting the Music Cognition Group for two days.Winkler will talk about his recent research in auditory perception and its role and functioning in the newborn brain. He will argue that the representation of a sound organization in the brain is a coalition of auditory regularity representations producing compatible predictions for the continuat........ Read more »
Näätänen R, Kujala T, & Winkler I. (2011) Auditory processing that leads to conscious perception: a unique window to central auditory processing opened by the mismatch negativity and related responses. Psychophysiology, 48(1), 4-22. PMID: 20880261
Winkler I, Denham SL, & Nelken I. (2009) Modeling the auditory scene: predictive regularity representations and perceptual objects. Trends in cognitive sciences, 13(12), 532-40. PMID: 19828357
- November 2, 2011
- 11:23 AM
- 94 views
Is beat induction species-specific?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Most animal studies have used behavioral methods to probe the presence (or absence) of beat induction, such as tapping tasks or measuring head bobs. It might well be that if more direct electrophysiological measures are used, nonhuman primates might indeed also show beat induction.
Its this hypothesis that that is the topic of a new and exiting collaboration of the University of Amsterdam with that of Hugo Merchant at the Institute of Neurobiology in Querétaro, Mexico. ... Read more »
Fitch, W. (2009) Biology of Music: Another One Bites the Dust. Current Biology, 19(10). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.04.004
Honing H, Ladinig O, Háden GP, & Winkler I. (2009) Is beat induction innate or learned? Probing emergent meter perception in adults and newborns using event-related brain potentials. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 93-6. PMID: 19673760
Zarco, W., Merchant, H., Prado, L., & Mendez, J. (2009) Subsecond Timing in Primates: Comparison of Interval Production Between Human Subjects and Rhesus Monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 102(6), 3191-3202. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00066.2009
- October 12, 2011
- 03:24 PM
- 50 views
Cleese explains it all
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Zatorre R, & McGill J (2005). Music, the food of neuroscience? Nature, 434 (7031), 312-5 PMID: 15772648... Read more »
Zatorre R, & McGill J. (2005) Music, the food of neuroscience?. Nature, 434(7031), 312-5. PMID: 15772648
- October 11, 2011
- 11:23 AM
- 189 views
Interested in human nature?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
During a partner meeting yesterday evening at the residence of the Amsterdam municipality, the majority of the speakers list was released for the 2011 edition of the TEDxAmsterdam event. The speakers and the audience will enter the theme ‘Human Nature’ on an expedition to find out what it means to be human in a society that is increasingly dominated by technology and economical issues.... Read more »
Lentink, D., Müller, U., Stamhuis, E., de Kat, R., van Gestel, W., Veldhuis, L., Henningsson, P., Hedenström, A., Videler, J., & van Leeuwen, J. (2007) How swifts control their glide performance with morphing wings. Nature, 446(7139), 1082-1085. DOI: 10.1038/nature05733
Crone, E., & van der Molen, M. (2004) Developmental Changes in Real Life Decision Making: Performance on a Gambling Task Previously Shown to Depend on the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex. Developmental Neuropsychology, 25(3), 251-279. DOI: 10.1207/s15326942dn2503_2
- October 10, 2011
- 10:00 PM
- 120 views
A history of music cognition?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
One of the pioneers in the field that would come to be called music cognition was H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923-2004). Not only was Longuet-Higgins one of the founders of the cognitive sciences (he coined the term in 1973), but as early as 1971 he formulated, together with Mark Steedman, the first computer model of musical perception. That early work was followed in 1976 with a full-fledged alternative in the journal Nature, seven years earlier than the more widely known, but, according t........ Read more »
Longuet-Higgins, C. (1983) All in theory — the analysis of music. Nature, 304(5921), 93-93. DOI: 10.1038/304093a0
Longuet-Higgins, H. (1976) Perception of melodies. Nature, 263(5579), 646-653. DOI: 10.1038/263646a0
Honing, H. (2011) The illiterate Listener. On music cognition, musicality and methodology. Amsterdam University Press. info:other
- August 12, 2011
- 06:07 AM
- 338 views
Dirk Jan Povel
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Today reached me the sad news that one of the Dutch pionieers in rhythm perception research, Dirk Jan Povel, has passed away after an incurable illness. Povel made an important contribution to our understanding of the perception of rhythmic patterns reported in a number of highly cited studies. He retired from Radboud University and at the Nijmegen Institute for Information and Cognition (NICI) in November 2005. He taught a few thousand students and was deeply involved in theoretical and applie........ Read more »
Povel, D. (1981) Internal representation of simple temporal patterns. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 7(1), 3-18. DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.7.1.3
- August 9, 2011
- 01:12 PM
- 316 views
The Illiterate Listener
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Entry on new essay.... Read more »
Honing, H. (2011) The illiterate Listener. On music cognition, musicality and methodology. Amsterdam University Press. info:other
- August 2, 2011
- 10:05 AM
- 307 views
What makes us musical animals? [Part 2]
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
We have known for some time that babies possess a keen perceptual sensitivity for the melodic, rhythmic and dynamic aspects of speech and music: aspects that linguists are inclined to categorize under the term ‘prosody’, but which are in fact the building blocks of music. Only much later in a child’s development does he or she make use of this ‘musical prosody’, for instance in delineating and subsequently recognizing word boundaries. In the essay shown below I try to make a case for â........ Read more »
de Waal, F., & Ferrari, P. (2010) Towards a bottom-up perspective on animal and human cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(5), 201-207. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.03.003
Mampe B, Friederici AD, Christophe A, & Wermke K. (2009) Newborns' cry melody is shaped by their native language. Current biology : CB, 19(23), 1994-7. PMID: 19896378
- July 31, 2011
- 11:50 AM
- 462 views
What makes us musical animals?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
This week a plug for my new book that just came out: Musical Cognition: A Science of Listening (Read fragments of it online at Google Books; currently available with more than 30% discount on the hardcover at Amazon and Barnes & Noble).From the cover:"Musical Cognition suggests that music is a game (or, in other words, 'benificial play'). In music, our cognitive functions such as perception, memory, attention, and expectation are challenged; yet as listeners we often do not realize that the ........ Read more »
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(7), 2468-2471. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809035106
- July 26, 2011
- 08:54 PM
- 383 views
Why would anyone listen to sad music?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
See also here.Huron, D. (2011). Why is sad music pleasurable? A possible role for prolactin Musicae Scientiae, 15 (2), 146-158 DOI: 10.1177/1029864911401171... Read more »
Huron, D. (2011) Why is sad music pleasurable? A possible role for prolactin. Musicae Scientiae, 15(2), 146-158. DOI: 10.1177/1029864911401171
- July 8, 2011
- 04:56 AM
- 326 views
Music as benificial play?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
This week an enthousiastic plug for my new book that just came out (and that is currently available at Amazon with a 30% discount on the hardcover). From the cover:"Musical Cognition suggests that music is a game (or 'benificial play'). In music, our cognitive functions such as perception, memory, attention, and expectation are challenged; yet as listeners we often do not realize that the listener plays an active role in reaching the awareness that makes music so exhilarating, soothing, and insp........ Read more »
Honing, H., Ladinig, O., Háden, G., & Winkler, I. (2009) Is Beat Induction Innate or Learned?. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169(1), 93-96. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04761.x
- June 8, 2011
- 10:34 AM
- 431 views
Interested in doing a postdoc in music cognition?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Postdoc in Music Cognition Vacancy... Read more »
Honing H, Ladinig O, Háden GP, & Winkler I. (2009) Is beat induction innate or learned? Probing emergent meter perception in adults and newborns using event-related brain potentials. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 93-6. PMID: 19673760
- May 28, 2011
- 06:45 PM
- 467 views
Are we ‘illiterate listeners’? [Part 2]
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
This week a fragment from The Illiterate Listener that will be published later this year at Amsterdam University Press:"French babies cry differently than German babies. That was the conclusion of a study published at the end of 2009 in the scientific journal Current Biology. German babies were found to cry with a descending pitch; French babies, on the other hand, with an ascending pitch, descending slightly only at the end. It was a surprising observation, particularly in light of the currentl........ Read more »
Honing, H. (2011) The illiterate Listener. On music cognition, musicality and methodology. Amsterdam University Press. info:other
- March 31, 2011
- 07:43 PM
- 511 views
Can music be funny?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
In the spirit of today a fragment from New Horizons in Music Appreciation, a program from Radio Station WOOF at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople: an early example of how to attract a wider audience to listen to classical music:With regard to today's question: David Huron (2004) studied audience laughter in live recordings of Peter Schickele's music (One of the presenters in the above broadcast). He offers a physiological explanation for why listeners respond to specific musical ........ Read more »
David Huron. (2004) Music-engendered laughter: an analysis of humor devices in PDQ Bach . Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition, 700-704. info:/
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