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Seminar by Henkjan Honing on music cognition

22.04.2013

 

Henkjan Honing, from the University of Amsterdam, will give a seminar on "Music, Cognition and the Origins of Musicality" on April 26th, Friday, at 15:30h in room 55.309.

Abstract: While it recently became quite popular to address the study of the origins of music from an evolutionary perspective, there is still little agreement on the idea that music is in fact an adaptation, that it influenced our survival, or that it made us sexually more attractive. Music appears to be of little use. So why argue that music is an adaptation? While it is virtually impossible to underpin the evolutionary role of musicality as a whole, the apparent innateness, and the species and cognitive specificity of its hypothesized components allow prof. dr Henkjan Honing to outline what makes us musical animals.

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