Launch of Toontjehoger!

Together with the awesome Music Cognition Group, we developed a website for science communication, through the KNAW Gewaardeerd! program. On this website, you can play a few small games to learn about your own musicality. Have a look at Toontjehoger! I was asked to give some explanation about the project in the Nacht van KRO-NCRV, […]

NEMO children’s lecture

I had the pleasure this month to give a lecture at the science museum NEMO in Amsterdam. A room full of curious children as an audience, it does not get much better! We danced, sang, and explored the wonders of rhythm and music in the brain. I had a blast! NEMO wrote a report on […]

Preprint: “A silent disco: Persistent entrainment of low-frequency neural oscillations underlies beat-based, but not pattern-based temporal expectations”

Is something special about beat-based expectations in rhythm? In this paper, we try to find out! The preprint is now fully updated with all the latest analyses, and online on bioRxiv: Bouwer, F.L., Fahrenfort, J.J., Millard, S.K., Kloosterman, N.A., Slagter, H.A. (preprint). A silent disco: Persistent entrainment of low-frequency neural oscillations underlies beat-based, but not pattern-based temporal expectations. bioRxiv, 2020.01.08.899278; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.08.899278 […]

Commentary about individual differences out in Journal of Cognition

My fabulous postdoc supervisor Prof. Heleen Slagter invited me to co-author a commentary about individual differences in the Journal of Cognition. Out now! Slagter, H. A., & Bouwer, F. L. (2021). Qualitative Versus Quantitative Individual Differences in Cognitive Neuroscience. Journal of Cognition, 4(1), 49. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.170 Individual differences in cognitive performance can be quantitative or qualitative in nature. […]

Why do we like music? Article in the Volkskrant

Last Saturday, an article appeared in the Volkskrant about why we like music so much. Prof. Henkjan Honing (my PhD supervisor) comments on the possible evolutionary roots for our love for music, and I chime in with some thoughts on why our brains like music so much (spoiler: something to do with expectations!). See the […]