Henkjan Honing is knaw-Muller Professor in Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and is affiliated with the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (illc), and the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (csca). This endowed chair is designated on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (knaw). Honing conducts research on the temporal aspects of music (such as rhythm, timing, and tempo), the role of perception, attention, expectation and memory in the process of listening to music, and studies the cognitive mechanisms underlying musicality.