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Henkjan Honing is a professor of Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam. This blog presents articles on the human understanding of music. Some of the articles are in English while others are in German.

An excellent video on how brain function is improved when playing an instrument. A great video for music advocacy.

This is one of my absolute favorite videos about music cognition.

This is one of my absolute favorite videos about music cognition.

This podcast series is about the role that music plays in the cognitive development of children and its importance in education. 

This article from NAMM looks at how children benefit from music education in schools. Included in this article are reasons to encourage and promote music education from the educational, cognitive, and social standpoint.

This book looks at a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the connections between music and children. The book discusses developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives including play, games, creativity, and movement. The book also explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, by looking at multiple domains that the child can benefit from with music (social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and linguistic).