Monday, November 24, 2025

Musical Animals: Are we? Can there be?

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On November 20, 2025, the Royal Palace Amsterdam hosted the symposium “Music and Mind, Music as Medicine,” part of the ongoing series organ...
Friday, November 07, 2025

Gaat muzikaliteit aan muziek én taal vooraf? [Dutch]

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Foto: Iris Vette Hoe het brein van onze verre voorouders eruitzag, is niet meer na te gaan. Toch is er via een omweg misschien iets te z...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

Can birds imitate Artoo-Detoo?

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The research summarized in an infographic (Dam et al., 2025) . When you think of birds imitating sounds, parrots and starlings might come t...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Piano touch unraveled. Touché?

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[From Kuromiya et al., 2025: Figure 1B]   [Adapted from interview by Elleke Bal, Trouw, 3 October 2025 ] Two professional pianists may pe...
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Thursday, September 11, 2025

Was het vroeger allemaal anders? [Dutch]

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[N.B. Column uit 2005]   De faculteit verplicht vanaf heden iedere medewerker alleen nog maar te schrijven met een balpen van het merk Bic. ...
Monday, September 08, 2025

Hoezo geen ritmegevoel? [Dutch]

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  Een video short van de Universiteit van Nederland .
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Are there controversies in pitch and timbre perception research? [in 333 words]

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European Starling ( Sturnus vulgaris) At the heart of human musicality lie fundamental questions about how we perceive sound. In the comi...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Is consonance a biological or a cultural phenomenon? [in 333 words]

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Chick in consonance experiment  (Chiandetti & Vallortigara, 2011). The distinction between consonance and dissonance has long occupied a...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Why does a well-tuned modern piano not sound out-of-tune?

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Karlheinz Stockhausen is listening. "Neue Musik ist anstrengend" , wrote Die Zeit some time ago: "Der seit Pythagoras’ Ze...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

What makes two melodies feel like the same song? [in 333 words]

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( cf. Krumhansl, 1989) . One of the most intriguing questions in music cognition research is also one of the simplest: when are two melodie...