This is your brain on music
Subtitle: understanding a human obsession
By: Daniel Levitin
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781843547150
Subjects: Music; Psychological aspects; Musique; Aspect psychologique
Description: This book explores the connection between music and its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it and the human brain.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Dutton, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: I love music and I love science : why would I want to mix the two?; title: What is music? : from pitch to timbre; title: Foot tapping: discerning rhythm, loudness, and harmony; title: Behind the curtain: music and the mind machine; title: Anticipation : what we expect from Liszt (and Ludacris); title: You know my name, look up the number : how we categorize music; title: After dessert, Crick was still four seats away from me : music, emotion, and the reptilian brain; title: What makes a musician? : expertise dissected; title: My favorite things : why do we like the music we like?; title: The music instinct : evolution's #1 hit; title: Appendices; title: Bibliographic notes; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.