Music Lab

The Music Cognition Group (MCG) is part of the department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Centre. MCG applies interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, make, and appreciate music.

The Music Lab is an online research platform that aims to create a common platform for online citizen-science experiments and data collection for cognitive and computational music research. It promotes potential collaboration area with the local music industry, with in particular to better understand the reception of local music offerings. It is an outreach tool in which people can explore and scientifically understand both their own and general listening patterns.

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