Titels | Prof. dr. |
Initials | H.J. |
Main position | Hoogleraar UvA |
Disciplines | Psychology |
Musicology | |
Artificial intelligence, expert systems | |
Animal ethology, animal psychology | |
Chair | Muziekcognitie |
Domain | Humanities |
Membership | Member |
Since | 2019 |
Member of Humanities | |
Member of Science Committee Meertens Institute | |
Employed by |
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, ILLC Postbus 94242 1090 GE Amsterdam tel. 020 525 4698 honing@uva.nl |
Personal website | |
Research/publications |
Henkjan Honing studies what musicality is or can be and to what extent human beings share musicality with other animals. His aim is to define the cognitive and biological mechanisms that underpin musicality. In addition to a research agenda (The Origins of Musicality, 2018, MIT Press), Honing has published several books for the general public, including the English-language publications Musical Cognition and The Evolving Animal Orchestra. Honing’s books and lectures are popular with a broad audience and are appreciated both inside and outside the scientific world.