Publications (grouped by kind)

Selected publications (grouped by kind)

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selection of theoretical, computational, and empirical studies

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Books | Essays

Honing, H. (Ed.) (in preparation). The Origins of Musicality. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Honing, H. (2011/2013). Musical Cognition. A Science of Listening. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
Honing, H. (2012). Op zoek naar wat ons muzikale dieren maakt. Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers.
Honing, H. (2011). The illiterate listener. On music cognition, musicality and methodology. Amsterdam University Press.
Honing, H. (2010). De ongeletterde luisteraar. Over muziekcognitie, muzikaliteit en methodologie. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie voor Wetenschappen. (Also published at Amsterdam University Press.)
Honing, H. (2009/2012). Iedereen is muzikaal. Wat we weten over het luisteren naar muziek. Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers.
Desain, P., & Honing, H. (1992). Music, Mind and Machine. Studies in Computer Music, Music Cognition and Artificial Intelligence. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers.

Scientific publications (selection)

Theoretical studies

Honing, H. , ten Cate, C., Peretz, I., & Trehub, S. (2015). Without it no music: Cognition, biology, and evolution of musicality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370 (1664). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0088
Gingras, B., Honing, H. , Peretz, I., Trainor, L., & Fisher, S. (2015). Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370 (1664). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0092
Merchant, H. & Honing, H. (2014). Are non-human primates capable of rhythmic entrainment? Evidence for the gradual audiomotor evolution hypothesis. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7(274) 1-8. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00274
Honing, H. (2013). The structure and interpretation of rhythm in music. In Deutsch, D. (ed.), Psychology of Music, 3rd edition (pp. 369-404). London: Academic Press.
Honing, H., & Ploeger, A. (2012). Cognition and the Evolution of Music: Pitfalls and Prospects. Topics in Cognitive Science (TopiCS).
Honing, H. (2006). Computational modeling of music cognition: a case study on model selection. Music Perception. 23 (5), 365-376.
Honing, H. (2006). On the growing role of observation, formalization and experimental method in musicology. Empirical Musicology Review, 1(1), 2-5.
Honing, H. (2002) Structure and interpretation of rhythm and timing Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie. 7(3), 227-232.
Desain, P., Honing, H., Thienen, H. van, and Windsor, W. L. (1998). Computational Modeling of Music Cognition: Problem or Solution? Music Perception, 16(1), 151-166. ISSN: 0730-7829.
Desain, P., & Honing, H. (1993). Tempo curves considered harmful. In "Time in contemporary musical thought" J. D. Kramer (ed.), Contemporary Music Review. 7(2). 123-138.

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Empirical studies

Honing, H., Merchant, H., Háden, G.P., Prado, L. & Bartolo, R. (2012). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) detect rhythmic groups in music, but not the beat. PLoS ONE, 7(12): e51369. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051369.
Honing, H. (2012). Without it no music: beat induction as a fundamental musical trait. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1252: The Neurosciences and Music IV — Learning and Memory, 85–91.
Winkler, I., Haden, G., Ladinig, O., Sziller, I., & Honing, H. (2009). Newborn infants detect the beat in music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 2468-2471.
Honing, H., & Ladinig, O. (2009). Exposure influences expressive timing judgments in music. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35(1), 281-288.
Honing, H., & Haas, W.B. (2008). Swing once more: Relating timing and tempo in expert jazz drumming. Music Perception, 25 (5), 471-477.
Honing, H. (2006). Evidence for tempo-specific timing in music using a web-based experimental setup. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32 (3), 780-786
Sadakata, M, Desain, P. & Honing, H. (2006). The Bayesian way to relate rhythm perception and production. Music Perception, 23(3), 269-288.
Desain, P. & Honing, H. (2003). The formation of rhythmic categories and metric priming. Perception. 32(3), 341-365.
Desain, P., & Honing, H. (1994). Does expressive timing in music performance scale proportionally with tempo? Psychological Research, 56, 285-292.

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Computational studies

Honing, H. (2006). Computational modeling of music cognition: a case study on model selection. Music Perception. 23 (5), 365-376.
Honing, H. (2005). Is there a perception-based alternative to kinematic models of tempo rubato? Music Perception, 23 (1), 79-85. [ILLC Prepublication PP-2004-17]
Honing, H. (2001) From time to time: The representation of timing and tempo. Computer Music Journal, 35(3), 50-61.
Desain, P. and Honing, H. (1999). Computational Models of Beat Induction: The Rule-Based Approach. Journal of New Music Research, 28(1), 29-42.
Honing, H. (1990). POCO: an environment for analysing, modifying, and generating expression in music. In Proceedings of the 1990 International Computer Music Conference. 364-368. San Francisco: Computer Music Association.
Desain, P., & Honing, H. (1989). Quantization of musical time: a connectionist approach. Computer Music Journal, 13(3), 56-66.

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