![]() ![]() It has been translated into 18 languages and spent more. and Canada in 2006, and updated and released in paperback by Plume/Penguin in 2007. Levitin is the ideal guide to this material: he enjoyed a successful career as a rock musician and studio producer before turning to cognitive neuroscience, earning a Ph.D. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. 'Music seems to have an almost wilful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand music, and what it can teach us about ourselves. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language.įrom Mozart to the Beatles, neuroscientist, psychologist and internationally-bestselling author Daniel Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Levitin runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication. ![]() 'What do the music of Bach, Depeche Mode and John Cage fundamentally have in common?' From the author of The Changing Mind and The Organized Mind comes The New York Times bestseller which unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with music ![]()
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