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What is the point of a mechanical shoe?
Fragment of the UvA tv-series De Fascinatie on the computational modeling of music cognition....
Music ≠ sound?
This week another fragment of the tv-series The Fascination on research by scholars and scientists of the University of Amsterdam. The fragment below is about music cognition and arguing against the common definition of music as being 'structured sou...
Does it matter what your child listens too?
This week a link to a newspaper article by Jeremy Eichler of the Boston Globe. Last week he phoned a number of researchers in music cognition asking for advice on what to play to his newborn son; he was wondering whether he could take advantage of th...
Has it been 25 years already?
The Music & Language conference —seeing its second edition this year— is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff's landmark book ‘A Generative Theory of Tonal Music’ (GTTM for short). An important book in the shor...
A fascination for music cognition?
This week a link to an episode of UvA's tv-series The Fascination. This episode in on music cognition, and is directed by Bob van Gijzel. Click here for the ten minute video with English subtitles....

