

This Is Your Brain on Music
The Science of a Human Obsession
Author: Daniel J. Levitin
Narrator: Daniel J. Levitin
Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 02/04/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Music, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Psychology, Neuropsychology, Science, Acoustics & Sound
Synopsis
• 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.