Publications

Bouwer, F. L., Damsma, A., Kaplan, T. M., Sarvestani, M. G., & Pearce, M. T. (2026). Abstract representations underlie rhythm perception and production: Evidence from a probabilistic model of temporal structure. Cognition, 268, 106345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106345. Data and code.

Grassi, M., Talamini, F., Altoè, G., Brattico, E., Caclin, A., Carretti, B., Drai-Zerbib, V., Ferreri, L., Gambarota, F., Grahn, J., Guiotto Nai Fovino, L., Roccato, M., Rodriguez-Fornells, A., Swaminathan, S., Tillmann, B., Vuust, P., Wilbiks, J., Zentner, M., Aguilar, K., …, Bouwer, F.L., … Zappa, A. (2025). Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(4), 25152459251379432. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251379432
Damsma, A., De Roo, M., Doelling, K., Bazin, P.-L., & Bouwer, F. L. (2025). Tempo-dependent selective enhancement of neural responses at the beat frequency can be mimicked by both an oscillator and an evoked model. Cerebral Cortex, 35(9), bhaf258. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf258. Data and code.

Bouwer, F. L., Háden, G. P., & Honing, H. (2024). Probing Beat Perception with Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) in Human Adults, Newborns, and Nonhuman Primates. In H. Merchant & V. de Lafuente (Red.), Neurobiology of Interval Timing (pp. 227-256). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60183-5_13 (OA preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/azk9q)
Háden, G. P., Bouwer, F. L., Honing, H., & Winkler, I. (2024). Beat processing in newborn infants cannot be explained by statistical learning based on transition probabilities. Cognition, 243, 105670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105670

Fiveash, A., Ferreri, L., Bouwer, F.L., Kösem, A., Moghimi, S., Ravignani, A., Keller, P.E., & Tillmann, B. (2023). Can rhythm-mediated reward boost learning, memory, and social connection? Perspectives for future research. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 149, 105153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105153
Bouwer, F. L., Fahrenfort, J. J., Millard, S. K., Kloosterman, N.A., & Slagter, H. A. (2023). A Silent Disco: Differential Effects of Beat-based and Pattern-based Temporal Expectations on Persistent Entrainment of Low-frequency Neural Oscillations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 990-1020. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01985 (OA preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.08.899278). Data and code.

Bouwer, F.L. (2022). Neural entrainment to auditory rhythms: automatic or top-down driven? The Journal of Neuroscience, 42(11), 2146-2148. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2305-21.2022 (OA preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p9uza).

Slagter, H. A., & Bouwer, F. L. (2021). Qualitative Versus Quantitative Individual Differences in Cognitive Neuroscience. Journal of Cognition, 4(1), 49. http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.170
Bouwer, F.L., Nityananda V., Rouse, A. A., & ten Cate, C. (2021). Rhythmic abilities in humans and non-human animals: a review and recommendations from a methodological perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20200335. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0335

Bouwer, F.L., Honing, H., & Slagter, H. A. (2020). Beat-based and memory-based temporal expectations in rhythm: similar perceptual effects, different underlying mechanisms. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 1221-1241. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01529. Data and code.

Honing, H., & Bouwer, F. L. (2019). Rhythm. In P. J. Rentfrow & D. Levitin (Red.), Foundations in Music Psychology: Theory and Research (pp. 33-69). MIT Press.

Honing, H., Bouwer, F.L., Prado, L., & Merchant, H. (2018). Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) sense isochrony in rhythm, but not the beat: Additional support for the Gradual Audiomotor Evolution Hypothesis. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 475. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00475
Bouwer, F.L., Burgoyne, J.A., Odijk, D., Honing, H., & Grahn, J. (2018). What makes a rhythm complex? The influence of musical training and accent type on beat perception. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0190322. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190322
Roncaglia-Denissen, M.P., Bouwer, F.L., & Honing, H. (2018). Decision making strategy and the simultaneous processing of syntactic dependencies in language and music. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognitive Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00038

Bouwer, F.L., Werner, C.M., Knetemann, M, & Honing, H. (2016). Disentangling beat perception from sequential learning and examining the influence of attention and musical abilities on ERP responses to rhythm. Neuropsychologia, 85, 80-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.02.018
Bouwer, F.L. (2016). What do we need to hear a beat? The influence of attention, musical abilities, and accents on the perception of metrical rhythm (Doctoral dissertation, University of Amsterdam). Full dissertation PDF.

Bouwer, F.L., & Honing, H. (2015). Temporal attending and prediction influence the perception of metrical rhythm: evidence from reaction times and ERPs. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1094. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01094

Bouwer, F. L., Van Zuijen, T. L., & Honing, H. (2014). Beat processing is pre-attentive for metrically simple rhythms with clear accents: An ERP study. PLoS ONE, 9(5), e97467. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097467
Honing, H., Bouwer, F. L., & Háden, G. P. (2014). Perceiving temporal regularity in music: The role of auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) in probing beat perception. In H. Merchant & V. de Lafuente (Red.), Neurobiology of Interval Timing (Vol. 829, pp. 305-323). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1782-2