This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0525949690 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession.. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the beauty of music itself, This Is Your Brain on Music unravels a host of mysteries that affect everything from pop culture to our understanding of human nature, including: • Are our musical preferences shaped in utero? • Is there a cutoff point for acquiring new tastes in music? • What do PET scans and MRIs reveal about the brain’s response to music? • Is musical pleasure different from other kinds of pleasure?This Is Your Brain on Music explores cultures in which singing is considered an essential human function, patients who have a rare disorder that prevents them from making sense of music, and scientists studyin
Not the best book on the subject. Lorena Sikorski For 82 pages, this is a musical terminology book for non musicians. Then it turns into a scientific terminology book for brain science. Chapters and chapters are wasted on defining. It has a lot of personal stories (which I didn't care about) thrown in for page fillers. This is not what I thought this book was about by it's description. I think the links between the brain and music could have been examined better and in a more factual style of writing. I found the writing style to be irritating. For ex. rock and roll song lyrics are thrown in the middle of a serious passage re. brain f. " this is a fun read for waiting rooms Amazon Customer Far less scholarly than Oliver Sack' "Musicophilia," this is a fun read for waiting rooms, the beach, or bus trips, to carry around in your purse or pack. Delightful descriptions of music and peoples' relationship to music One doesn't need to be any manner of expert to read and enjoy it. Also, it's repeatably dip-able, just any place. Quite enjoyable and very clear. Explains all that "mysterious stuff" about music, about which one could never quite get a clear picture.. Shane Marques said Complex ideas put simply!. This book taught me alot of the fundamentals that I knew, but didn't understand. As in, i knew what most of the information was in my subconscious, but didn't know aloy of the terminology! Can easily take you from a novice understanding, to an intermediate level.
All rights reserved. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Think of a song that resonates deep down in your being. 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. and becoming a top researcher into how our brains interpret music. Now imagine sitting down with someone who was there when the song was recorded and can tell you how that series of sounds was committed to tape, and who can also explain why that particular combination of rhythms, timbres and pitches has lodged in your memory, making your pulse race and your heart swell every time you hear it. (Aug.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Remarkably, Levitin does all this and more, interrogating the basic nature of hearing and of music making (this is likely the only book whose jacket sports blurbs from both Oliver Sacks an