This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession [I Love Music and I Love Science¿Why Would I Want to Mix the Two? -- 1. What is Music? -- From Pitch to Timbre -- 2. The First Song Foot Tappin'. Discerning Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony -- 3. Behind the Curtain -- Music and the Mind Machine -- 1. How Music Gets in Our Heads -- 4. And What It Does There Anticipation What We Expect From Beethoven (and Busta Rhymes) -- 5. You Know My Name, Look Up The Number -- What Makes a Musician? -- How We Categorize Music -- 6. After Dessert, Crick Was Still Four Seats Away From Me Music, Emotion, and the Reptilian Brain -- Your Favorite Music Explained (Why does music move us? Why do we like what we like?) -- 7. What Makes a Musician?]

Levitin, Daniel J.

ISBN 10: 0525949690 / ISBN 13: 9780525949695

Edité par New York, N.Y. : Dutton, c2006., 2006

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[1st ed.], 9th printing ; Contents: Introduction -- I Love Music and I Love Science¿Why Would I Want to Mix the Two? -- 1. What is Music? -- From Pitch to Timbre -- 2. The First Song Foot Tappin'. Discerning Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony -- 3. Behind the Curtain -- Music and the Mind Machine -- 1. How Music Gets in Our Heads -- 4. And What It Does There Anticipation What We Expect From Beethoven (and Busta Rhymes) -- 5. You Know My Name, Look Up The Number -- What Makes a Musician? -- How We Categorize Music -- 6. After Dessert, Crick Was Still Four Seats Away From Me Music, Emotion, and the Reptilian Brain -- Your Favorite Music Explained (Why does music move us? Why do we like what we like?) -- 7. What Makes a Musician? -- Expertise Dissected -- 8. My Favorite Things Why Do We Like The Music We Like? -- 9. ConclusionThe Music Instinct -- Evolution's #1 Hit -- Appendix -- Bibliographic Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Explores the relationship between the mind and music by drawing on recent findings in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to discuss such topics as the sources of musical tastes and the brain's responses to music ; Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bestselling author. He trained at Stanford University Medical School, The University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Oregon. 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.; FINE/FINE.

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• Titre: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession [I Love Music and I Love Science¿Why Would I Want to Mix the Two? -- 1. What is Music? -- From Pitch to Timbre -- 2. The First Song Foot Tappin'. Discerning Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony -- 3. Behind the Curtain -- Music and the Mind Machine -- 1. How Music Gets in Our Heads -- 4. And What It Does There Anticipation What We Expect From Beethoven (and Busta Rhymes) -- 5. You Know My Name, Look Up The Number -- What Makes a Musician? -...
• Éditeur: New York, N.Y. : Dutton, c2006.
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0525949690
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780525949695
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Type de livre: Book

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Synopsis

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, 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 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.

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel J. Levitin runs the Levitin Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communications. Before becoming a neuroscientist, he was a record producer with gold records to his credit and professional musician. He has published extensively in scientific journals and music trade magazines such as Grammy and Billboard.