Presentatie over leren door samenspelen op symposium over popmuziekeducatie tijdens Echt Erik Festival, Groningen, NL

The realization of one’s musical ideas at the keyboard is dependent on the ability to transform sound into movement, a process called audiomotor transformation. Using fMRI, we investigated cerebral activations while classically‐trained improvising and non‐improvising musicians imagined playing along …

Presentation for surgical staff members of the UMCG.

Research Centre Arts & Society Review (Kenniscentrumbrede review) 13.6.2017. Oral presentation on MiMiC with Rineke Smilde.

Muzikale lezing tijdens het festival 'Terug naar het Begin' in de kerk van Holwierde.

A practice-based research is presented investigating a method of teaching CI-recipients to play the piano with the goal of improving their aural perception. The method is based on the concept of ideomotor learning i.e. the development of a neural association between music and the movement that produces …

Three topics are discussed: audiomotor transformations in music, the aural perception of music, and procedural learning and music syntax. Biologically, the ability to make music and enjoy it is based on the innate capacities for beat induction and relative pitch (recognition of melodic contour). The …

The transformation of music into movement takes place while dancing, singing, and playing an instrument. The human capacity for beat induction facilitates rhythmic movement to the musical beat, a capacity share with only a few animals. While Parkinson patients are limited in their locomotive abilities, …

Keynote lezing op uitnodiging op 10th International Conference for Research in Music Education RIME , Bath (UK), 24-27/472017

Presentatie op uitnodiging in project van Prins Claus Conservatorium/Zernike College Haren o.l.v. Hannah Conway rond Mozart’s Requiem, Groningen (NL).