#638 Henkjan Honing: The Evolution, Cognition, and Neuroscience of Musicality and Music
RECORDED ON JANUARY 26th 2022.
Dr. Henkjan Honing 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. Dr. Honing is known as a passionate researcher in this new interdisciplinary field that gives us fundamental insights in the cognitive mechanisms underlying musicality. He published several books, including 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).
In this episode, we talk about musicality. We start with its cognitive components, and then go through: musicality in other animals; the relationship between musicality and language; the evolutionary functions of music; synchrony and social bonding; human universals in music; the neuroscience of music; sexual selection; and if other animals appreciate music.
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Intro
What is musicality?
The cognitive components of musicality
Musicality in other animals
Is there a relationship between musicality and language?
The evolutionary functions of music
Synchrony and social bonding
Human universals in music
Is how people estimate time related to musicality?
Is music localized in the brain?
Was music sexually selected?
Do other animals appreciate music?
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Follow Dr. Honing’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/3rmm6j7
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3ymKT7R
Music Cognition Group: https://bit.ly/3AH6N8U