!!Henkjan Honing - Biography
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Henkjan Honing (1959) is professor in Music Cognition at both the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He conducts his research under the auspices of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the University of Amsterdam's Brain and Cognition (ABC) Center.
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Honing obtained his PhD at City University (London) in 1991 with research into the representation of time and temporal structure in music. During the period between 1992 and 1997, he worked as a KNAW Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), where he conducted a study on the formalization of musical knowledge, pioneering the use of symbolic AI (GOFAI) and connectionist models (neural networks) to the representation of time and temporal structure in music. Up until 2003, he worked as a research coordinator at the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI; Now Donders Institute) where he specialized in the computational modeling of music cognition. In 2007, he was appointed Associate Professor in Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam's Musicology capacity group. In 2010 he was awarded the KNAW-Hendrik Muller chair, designated on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2012 he was appointed strategic Professor of Cognitive and Computational Musicology, and in 2014 he became full professor in Music Cognition at both the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. In 2013 he received a Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship, a prize granted by the Lorentz Center for the Sciences and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2019 Henkjan Honing was elected member of the KNAW. In 2024 Honing received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC).
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Henkjan Honing  is known as a passionate researcher in this new interdisciplinary field that gives us fundamental insights in the cognitive mechanisms underlying musicality. He has authored over 250 international publications in the area of music cognition and music technology. Recently three new books appeared: Music Cognition: The Basics (2021, Routledge), The Evolving Animal Orchestra: In Search of What Makes Us Musical (2019, The MIT Press), and an edited volume with a research agenda on musicality entitled The Origins of Musicality (2018, The MIT Press).\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit hhoning}][{ALLOW upload hhoning}][{ALLOW comment All}]