Henkjan Honing appointed professor of Cognitive and Computational Musicology

On 1 March 2012, Henkjan Honing (1959) will officially be appointed professor of Cognitive and Computational Musicology at both the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam.

Honing researches the role of perception, attention, expectation and memory when listening to music. He hereby analyses the cognitive mechanisms which form the basis for musicality. In his research, Honing uses theoretical, empirical and computational methods.

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