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This Is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

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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


'What do the music of Bach, Depeche Mode and John Cage fundamentally have in common?'


Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language.


From 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.


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.

Author: Levitin Daniel
Publisher: PENGUIN
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780241987353
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2020

Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bestselling author. He is founding dean of Arts and Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University. He is the author of This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, and A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics. He divides his time between Montreal and California.

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