On Friday 24 May 2013 Hugo Merchant (Head of Laboratory of system neurophysiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Querétaro, Mexico) will give an extra CSCA Lecture with the title Neurophysiology of temporal and sequential processing during a synchronization-continuation tapping task. He will present a recent study investigating rhythmic entrainment in Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

Two PhD fellowships at the ILLC, Faculty of Science ––– Deadline: 12 mei 2013.

Henkjan Honing spreekt op 8 mei 2013 een tafelrede uit in de reeks SPUI25 op locatie: Food for thought. Is muziek uniek voor mensen, zoals taal dat lijkt te zijn, of delen we onze muzikale vaardigheden met andere dieren? Wat moet een aap, olifant of zangvogel kunnen om muzikaal te zijn? Ook vanuit biologisch en evolutionair perspectief kijken we naar de oorsprong van muziek en muzikaliteit.

Henkjan Honing, Professor of Music Cognition from the University of Amsterdam, wins the fifth Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship Prize. Honing will explore what insights cognitive science and biology can provide on the origins of music and musicality. This will also be the topic of his interdisciplinary workshop at the Lorentz Center with the title Does Music Matter? Cognition, Biology, and the Origins of Music/ality.

The Faculty of Humanities is searching for two Assistant Professors in Musicology in the fields of historical, cognitive or cultural musicology. Deadline for applications: 17 April 2013.

Tuesday 16 April 2013 CSCA Lecture by professor Larry Parsons (University of Sheffield and Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive, CNRS, Lyon, France) on the Neurobiological Basis of Musical Skills and Dancing. He will present functional neuroimaging data on the brain basis of call/response singing, harmonization, improvisational singing, sight-singing duets, music learning in non-musical adults, and the performance of memorized piano pieces. Also discussed will be the relation between neural systems for melodic and sentential generation, emotional musical experiences, and the brain basis of dancing.

Friday 5 April 2013 SMART Lecture by dr Lauren Stewart (Goldsmiths, University of London) on Congenital Amusia with the title: Why do all the songs sound the same?

Interview met MCG-promovendus Fleur Bouwer in Folia Magazine en op Folia Radio.

Henkjan Honing, Professor of Music Cognition from the University of Amsterdam, wins the fifth Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship Prize. Honing will explore what insights cognitive science and biology can provide on the origins of music and musicality. This will also be the topic of his interdisciplinary workshop at the Lorentz Center with the title Does Music Matter? Cognition, Biology, and the Origins of Music/ality.

Op zondagochtend 6 januari 2013 probeert Henkjan Honing, samen met Fleur Bouwer, het publiek ervan te overtuigen dat we allemaal een bijzondere band met muziek hebben.