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  • 2019 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Henkjan Honing is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of neuroscience and music perception, with substantial work extending into animal vocal communication and behavior.

The main fields of study for this researcher include Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The key topics covered in their work are:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Avian Ecology and Behavior

Recent publications from Henkjan Honing include:

  • Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition, 2020, Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • Beat-based and Memory-based Temporal Expectations in Rhythm: Similar Perceptual Effects, Different Underlying Mechanisms, 2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Mapping between sound, brain and behaviour: four-level framework for understanding rhythm processing in humans and non-human primates, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Parallel pitch processing in speech and melody: A study of the interference of musical melody on lexical pitch perception in speakers of Mandarin, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Henkjan Honing has collaborated extensively with other researchers in the field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Fleur L. Bouwer
  • Zhi-Yuan Ning
  • Carel ten Cate
  • Gábor P. Háden
  • Andrea Ravignani

Regarding book publications, Honing authored Music Cognition: The Basics, published in 2021 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Award recognition includes election to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Newborn infants detect the beat in music

    István Winkler;Gábor P. Háden;Gábor P. Háden;Olivia Ladinig;István Sziller

  • Without it no music: cognition, biology and evolution of musicality

    Henkjan Honing;Carel ten Cate;Isabelle Peretz;Sandra E. Trehub

  • Are non-human primates capable of rhythmic entrainment? Evidence for the gradual audiomotor evolution hypothesis.

    Hugo Merchant;Henkjan Honing

  • The formation of rhythmic categories and metric priming.

    Peter Desain;Henkjan Honing

  • On tempo tracking: Tempogram Representation and Kalman filtering

    Ali Taylan Cemgil;Bert Kappen;Peter Desain;Henkjan Honing

  • Without it no music: beat induction as a fundamental musical trait

    Henkjan Honing

  • The Quantization of Musical Time : A Connectionist Approach

    Peter Desain;Henkjan Honing

  • Longitudinal Analysis of Music Education on Executive Functions in Primary School Children

    Artur C. Jaschke;Artur C. Jaschke;Henkjan Honing;Erik J. A. Scherder

  • Rhesus Monkeys ( Macaca mulatta ) Detect Rhythmic Groups in Music, but Not the Beat

    Henkjan Honing;Hugo Merchant;Gábor P. Háden;Luis Prado

  • Computational Models of Beat Induction: The Rule-Based Approach

    Peter Desain;Henkjan Honing

  • Probing Attentive and Preattentive Emergent Meter in Adult Listeners without Extensive Music Training

    Olivia Ladinig;Henkjan Honing;Gábor Háden;István Winkler

  • Tempo Curves Considered Harmful

    Peter Desain;Henkjan Honing

  • Music, Mind, and Machine: Studies in Computer Music, Music Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence

    Peter Desain;Henkjan Honing

  • Does expressive timing in music performance scale proportionally with tempo

    Peter Desain;Henkjan Honing

  • Cognition and the evolution of music: pitfalls and prospects.

    Henkjan Honing;Annemie Ploeger

  • Rhythmic context influences the auditory evoked potentials of musicians and nonmusicians

    Marijtje L.A. Jongsma;Peter Desain;Henkjan Honing

  • Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights, and recommendations

    Nori Jacoby;Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis;Martin Clayton;Erin Hannon

  • Structure and Interpretation of Rhythm in Music

    Henkjan Honing

  • Swing once more: Relating timing and tempo in expert jazz drumming

    Henkjan Honing;W. Bas De Haas

  • From Time to Time: The Representation of Timing and Tempo

    Henkjan Honing

  • Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality

    Bruno Gingras;Henkjan Honing;Isabelle Peretz;Laurel J. Trainor

  • Evidence for tempo-specific timing in music using a web-based experimental setup.

    Henkjan Honing

  • Quantization of musical time: a connectionist approach

    P. Desain;H. Honing

Frequent Co-Authors

István Winkler
István Winkler Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Sandra E. Trehub
Sandra E. Trehub University of Toronto
Carel ten Cate
Carel ten Cate Leiden University
Laurel J. Trainor
Laurel J. Trainor McMaster University
Erik J. A. Scherder
Erik J. A. Scherder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Heleen A. Slagter
Heleen A. Slagter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society

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