📗 Libro en inglés THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC

PLUME EDITIONS - 9780452288522

Música Teoría de la música

Sinopsis de THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC

Daniel J. Levitin

A fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind-and the role of melodies in shaping our lives

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.


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Editorial: Plume Editions

ISBN: 9780452288522

Idioma: Inglés

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Fecha de lanzamiento: 27/06/2007

Año de edición: 2007

Plaza de edición: London

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Escrito por DANIEL LEVITIN


DANIEL J. LEVITIN (San Francisco, 1957) es neurocientífico y músico, actualmente director del Laboratorio de Percepción, Conocimiento y Dominio de la Música de la Universidad McGill. Ha sido profesor universitario, productor discográfico y músico profesional. Ha colaborado con artistas como Stevie Wonder, Grateful Dead, Blue Öyster Cult o Joe Satriani. Ha escrito para revistas científicas (Science, Neuron) y musicales (Grammy, Billboard), y es autor del aclamado El cerebro y la música (2006), también publicado por RBA.
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