Musically, I like everything from Hank Williams to Sonic Youth, but I had no idea what was going on in my brain when I listened to music until I read this amazing book by Daniel J. Levitin, "This is Your Brain on Music."
Levitin is a neuroscientist who runs the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University in Montreal. He's also a musician and former record producer, so he's the perfect person to ask what happens in the brain when a favorite song comes on the radio, or why certain chord sequences fill us with delight.
Read his interview in the NYTimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/arts/music/31thom.html?ex=1190001600&en=230ef23cf2219777&ei=5070
Levitin is a neuroscientist who runs the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University in Montreal. He's also a musician and former record producer, so he's the perfect person to ask what happens in the brain when a favorite song comes on the radio, or why certain chord sequences fill us with delight.
Read his interview in the NYTimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/arts/music/31thom.html?ex=1190001600&en=230ef23cf2219777&ei=5070
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