Members of the Music Cognition Group (MCG) are involved in various courses offered at the University of Amsterdam. See the UvA Studiegids 2025/26 for courses related to music cognition, cognitive musicology, computational musicology, AI & Music, and more. Furthermore, MCG has several master-level internships available each academic year.
Members of the Music Cognition Group (MCG) are involved in various courses offered at the University of Amsterdam. Search for “Music Cognition”, “Cognitive Musicology”, “Computational Musicology”, “AI and music”, or simply “Music” in the UvA Studiegids. Note that courses change slightly every year. For questions related to the courses mentioned in the Studiegids, please contact the staff mentioned in there.
The minor Music, Culture, Cognition enables students to establish links between culture and cognition through the study of music across cultures (and potentially even across species). It offers a unique combination of cultural theory and methods from the cognitive sciences through a focus on music, its workings, functions and origins. You will be working with experts from the fields of both cultural musicology and music cognition.
N.B. From 2026 onward no internships or master projects are announced on this website anymore. Please contact the staff directly instead.
This project is part of a series of studies contributing to an interdisciplinary research agenda on musicality (Honing, 2022). The main aim is to develop a variety of methods to probe musicality in a variety of geographical regions.