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This Is Your Brain on Music

The Science of a Human Obsession

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This Is Your Brain on Music

De: Daniel J. Levitin
Narrado por: Daniel J. Levitin
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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 becoming 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.

©2006 Daniel J. Levitin (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Ciencia Concientización acerca de la salud mental Instrucciones y Técnica Música Psicología Psicología y Salud Mental Cerebro humano Cognitive Neuroscience Music Technology

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"Endlessly stimulating, a marvelous overview, and one which only a deeply musical neuroscientist could give.... An important book." (Oliver Sacks, MD)

"I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else - and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on, this book doesn't 'spoil' enjoyment - it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music." (David Byrne, founder of Talking Heads and author of How Music Works)

"Levitin is a deft and patient explainer of the basics for the non-scientist as well as the non-musician.... By tracing music's deep ties to memory, Levitin helps quantify some of music's magic without breaking its spell." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

Informative Neuroscience • Excellent Exploration • Thought-provoking Content • Educational Insights • Scientific Detail

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Un trésor d’information pour un amateur de musique et science. Excellente narration de l’auteur et quelques exemples musicaux qui rendent l’écoute très vivante.

Wow!

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Full of good information about music and how and why it affects us so strongly.

Illuminating

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This book contains a very high level of scientific detail that felt targeted more toward neuroscientists than musicians.

Great but likely not for the casual, curious musician

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At times difficult to follow... to process... all of the technical techniques that are broken down, throughout the book. I still found it quite interesting. Music has been such a focal point to my life since childhood... even to know. It was intriguing to hear how sounds... not only just music... works from in all its forms, both from within and without, both the body and the mind. And, dare I say... even the soul.

A different point of view...

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Enjoyed the topic. It is thorough, but a bit dense for audiobook. Author dedicates the last chapter to the evolutionary foundations of music. Unlike the rest of the book where he backs up ideas with specific studies, any evolutionary speculations are just that, speculations/guesses. There are not direct observations reported and stating conclusions with such confidence, with no evidence makes any scientist look silly.

Thorough, dense, one chapter too many

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Without audio examples, it becomes incredibly frustrating. Could be really great with those to help.

Great words but needs actual musica examples.

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I learned so much from Daniel re neuroprocessing of music and, specifically, rhythm and timbre. He is not a natural at narration however and I grew tired of his inflections and emphases.

Fascinating

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Outstanding exploration of the way our minds listen to, experience, process, and create music. Highly recommend this audiobook to anyone who loves music, which I believe is pretty much everyone.
The one tiny thing I didn’t love is the author surprisingly perpetuates the myth that the tritone was banned by the church. (It wasn’t!) But that’s a small thing. It’s really an excellent book.

Wonderful Harmony of Music and Neuroscience

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Explica cosas básicas para no músicos y de allí ya puedes entender a lo que se refiere en los siguientes capítulos.
Vale la pena en audio para entender mejor cómo es una nota, el tono, etc.

Muy interesante

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The author did an excellent job with the performance including musical chords, notes, etc. . The information relating to how our brains react and function with the influence of music is thought invoking. I love all the explanations of how chords are used and notes in the scales. There's so much to get out of this book!

Excellent performance and interesting information

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