Wednesday, August 27, 2025

What Makes Two Melodies Feel the Same? [in 333 words]

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(McAdams & Cunible, 1992) . One of the most intriguing questions in music cognition research is also one of the simplest: when are two m...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Want to test your musical memory?

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Test your musical memory! A beta version of #TuneTwins is now online at https://tunetwins.app . Note: Some things may still not work perfe...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

What do Bach, bipedalism and a baby crying have in common?

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Human beings seem to have an innate sense of both rhythm and time, but how much is it biological and how much is it cultural?  Feel free to ...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Music in our genes?

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© ILLC Blog, Illustration by Marianne de Heer Kloots     "In 1984, a curious study on musicality in animals was published. The researc...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

What is the use of the comparative approach in studying the origins of language and music?

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Diagrammatic representation of the comparative approach (as discussed in ten Cate & Honing, 2022/2025 ) Comparative studies can be done...
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Wetenschap in de blogosfeer? [Dutch]

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Uit De bloggende wetenschap ( Folia ), over Music Matters | A blog on music cognition: "Ik weet niet direct wat muziekcognitie is, ma...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Interested in a challenging postdoc position in Amsterdam?

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MCG in November 2024. We are currently looking for a postdoc researcher that likes to work on the intersection of music cognition, biology...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Interested in doing a PhD in Music Cognition?

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Master students of the UvA (or excellent external candidates) are invited to submit a short proposal to be selected as a candidate for NWO...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Musical Animals: Are We? Can There Be?

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Lecture at Barenboim-Said Akademie in 2016 . Roughly ten years ago, I had the honor of being invited by the Barenboim-Said Akademie to del...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Do you know a parrot that talks or sings?

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The Bird Singalong and Speech Project needs you. You can contribute by uploading audio clips of your parrot and its learning source to the ...