Research

The research of the Music Cognition Group (MCG) has a special focus on the temporal and melodic aspects of music using theoretical, empirical and computational methods. The current research program addresses the following research questions: What is shared (and what unique) in music versus language processing? (NWO-Horizon, 2013-2016) What are the music structural and cognitive components that contribute to the memory, recall and transmission of melodies? (NWO-CATCH and KNAW-Tunes & Tales, 2012-2015) What are the cognitive and biological building blocks of musicality? (KNAW-Muller chair and Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship, 2010-2014) What are the cognitive mechanisms and neurological correlates of rhythm perception? (UvA-CSCA, 2011-2014)

Current Projects

NWO-Horizon Knowledge and Culture (2013-2016) Read more ... NIAS/Lorentz Center Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship (2013-2014) Read more ... NWO-CATCH COGITCH (COgnition Guided Interoperability beTween Collections of musical Heritage) (2012-2015) Read more ... KNAW-Computational Humanities Tunes & Tales. Modeling Oral Transmission (2012-2015) Read more ... UvA-CSCA The role of neural plasticity in conscious perception (2011-2014) Read more ... KNAW-Hendrik Muller chair (2010-2013) Read more ... EU-COST TIMELY (Network Grant) (2010-2013) Read more ...

Past Projects

NWO-GW Music matters: On music and the cognitive sciences (2008-2009) Read more ... EU FP6-IST Emergent cognition through active perception (EmCAP), a three-year research project in the field of music cognition (2005-2008) Read more ... NWO-STW Practice Space: exploration and training of music performance skills (realized at RU, 2005-2009) Read more ... NWO-GW Foundations of the Humanities: a cognitive revolution in musicology (2005-2007) Read more ... EU FP5-IHP MOSART: European network on music technology (2001-2003) NWO-GW/MAGW Music Mind Machine (MMM) PIONIER project (1997-2003) Read more ... NWO-STW Quantization of temporal patterns by neural networks (1997-2001) NWO-SION Disclosure of large musical databases using a metric for temporal patterns (1997-1998) KNAW A formalism for knowledge representation in music (1992-1997)

Projects under review | in preparation

NWO/FWO-FGw Music cognition in action: towards a new theoretical foundation (under review) EU-FP7 MoMENT (Modelling Musicality for and through Embodiment, Neuroscience, and Therapy) (in preparation)

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