This Is Your Brain on Music
Subtitle: The Science of a Human Obsession
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York (New York), USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780452288522
Notes: First Plume (Penguin Group) printing: September 2007.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: I love music and I love science—why would I want to mix the two?
pagenum: 1; title: What is music?: from pitch to timbre
pagenum: 13; title: Foot tapping: discerning rhythm, loudness, and harmony
pagenum: 57; title: Behind the curtain: music and the mind machine
pagenum: 83; title: Anticipation: what we expect from Liszt (and Ludacris)
pagenum: 111; title: You know my name, look up the number: how we categorize music
pagenum: 133; title: After dessert, crick was still four seats away from me: music, emotion, and the reptilian brain
pagenum: 169; title: What makes a musician?: expertise dissected
pagenum: 193; title: My favorite things: why do we like the music we like?
pagenum: 223; title: The music instinct: evolution's #1 hit
pagenum: 247; title: Appendices
pagenum: 277; title: Biographic notes
pagenum: 307; title: Aknowledgments
pagenum: 309