This is Your Brain on Music

Name: This is Your Brain on Music
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780241987353
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Understanding a Human Obsession

By Daniel Levitin

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This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin explores the intersection of music, neuroscience, and psychology. The author explains how music affects our brains and why it plays a significant role in human culture. Through scientific insights and engaging anecdotes, Levitin reveals the cognitive processes behind music creation, perception, and appreciation.
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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This book may appeal to you if you're fascinated by the intersection of science and art, particularly how music affects our brains and emotions. If you're curious about why certain songs evoke strong feelings or how music plays a role in human evolution and culture, you'll find this exploration both enlightening and engaging.

This is Your Brain on Music

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The New York Times bestselling book which examines how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with it.

Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, 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.

Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This is Your Brain on Music, Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life.

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Daniel Levitin's This is Your Brain on Music is praised for being both fluent and readable, suggesting that everyone has an innate ability to perform and appreciate music, as humans are naturally hard-wired for it. The book is highlighted as consistently interesting and argues for the fundamental importance of music in human development. Readers found it endlessly stimulating and appreciated its eloquent exploration of the complexities of music, encouraging them to perceive music in new ways.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241987353

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 July 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 235g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Dr. Daniel J. Levitin has a PhD in Psychology, training at Stanford University Medical School and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the No. 1 bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music (Dutton, 2006), published in nineteen languages, and the bestsellers The World in Six Songs (Dutton, 2008) and The Organized Mind (Viking, 2014). Currently he is a James McGill Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Music at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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