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This Is Your Brain on Music

Daniel J. Levitin

  • 320 pages ยท about 5 hours
  • First published 2006
  • 7 editions
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1 About this book

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2006, and updated and released in paperback by Plume/Penguin in 2007.

It has been translated into 18 languages and spent more than a year on The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and other bestseller lists, and sold more than one million copies.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: psychology, science, and music.

  • Psychology
  • Science
  • Music
  • Electronic books
  • Nervous System Physiological Phenomena

2 About Daniel J. Levitin

Born 1957

Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian polymath, cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is the author of four New York Times best-selling books, including This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, (Dutton/Penguin 2006; Plume/Penguin 2007) which has sold more than 1.5 million copies.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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