In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between musicits performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy itand the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise How those insidious little jingles (called earworms ) get stuck in our heads And, taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. This Is Your Brain on Music is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.
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丹尼爾.列維廷 Daniel J. Levitin 專業音樂人,成長於1970年代搖滾狂飆的加州。出身中產階級家庭,母親所彈奏的蕭邦與舒曼是他對音樂最初的記憶,然而丹尼爾卻在大學時代為組搖滾樂團而輟學。在音樂界浮沉數年後,丹尼爾闖出一番成績,擔任史提夫.汪達、死之華樂團、藍牡蠣樂團的唱片製作人、錄音師,更與史汀、大衛.拜恩同台共演。 三十歲後帶著對音樂的熱情重返學界,現為加拿大麥基爾大學心理學教授,主持音樂感知與知覺研究實驗室,致力探究音樂如何引發情感,以及人類如何記憶、再現音樂,他的實驗室也是妃絲特、巴比.麥菲林等音樂人的朝聖地。丹尼爾堅持以真實音樂取代傳統實驗所用的機械人工聲響,以取得貼近現實的數據。著有《迷戀音樂的腦》、《傳唱世界的六首歌》、《認知心理學基礎》,其中《迷戀音樂的腦》為麻省理工學院、UCLA的課堂教材,及哈佛大學的新鮮人通識教育核心計畫指定閱讀。
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