This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession  by Daniel J. Levitin

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Daniel J. Levitin

352 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction music psychology science informative slow-paced

Description

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Taking on prominen...

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