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A fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind—and the role of melodies in shaping our lives <BR><BR> Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. 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. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the beauty of music itself, <I>This Is Your Brain on Music</I> unravels a host of mysteries that affect everything from pop culture to our understanding of human nature, including:<BR> • Are our musical preferences shaped in utero?<BR> • Is there a cutoff point for acquiring new tastes in music? <BR> • What do PET scans and MRIs reveal about the brain's response to music? <BR> • Is musical pleasure different from other kinds of pleasure? <BR> <BR> <I>This Is Your Brain on Music</I> 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 studying why two people may not have the same definition of pitch. At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession.
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What I learned:
- There is no sound in space
(there are no molecules to vibrate)
- Virtuosity comes from hour...more...]]>
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This week I'm reading the coolest book I've read in a while: This is Your Brain on Mu...more...]]>
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Daniel J. Levitin’s This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a fascinating study about what happens in the brain when we listen to music. Levitin, a neuroscientist and former session musician and producer, has crafted an excellent study that both scientists and lay re...more...]]>
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It definitely does have some interesting facts and ideas within it, so it's vaguely interesting, but more importantly, it's also profoundly irritating. At least for m...more...]]>