[Dixielandjazz] This is Your Brain on Music

[Janie McCue Lynch]

I purchased Leviton's book "This is Your Brain on Music" a few months ago,
on Ginny's recommendation.

Fascinating, and very readable.  I recommended it to my music theory
professor, who also purchased it...I wouldn't lend out my copy,  not even to
him!

Janie
janie39 at socal.rr.com <mailto:janie39 at socal.rr.com>


This article from Norman on another list. A neurological explanation of why
folks love music. (and why we should play recognizable tunes, including
those of The Beatles and When The Saints Come marching In)

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


From: "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>
Subject: Part of brain--sex, drugs & rock-and-roll......

³In my laboratory, we've found that listening to a familiar song that you
like activates the same parts of the brain as eating chocolate, having sex
or taking opiates. There really is a sex, drugs and rock-and-roll part of
the brain: a network of neural structures including the nucleus accumbens
and the amygdala. But no one song does this for everyone, and musical taste
is both variable and subjective.²

NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, SEE THE FOLLOWING WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE BY
THE NEUROSCIENTIST AUTHOR

Start Article

It Was 40 Years Ago Today - Daniel J. Levitin
Washington Post - Friday, June 1, 2007; A15

Daniel J. Levitin, a former record producer, is a professor of psychology
and music at McGill University in Montreal and the author of "This Is Your
Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession."





_______________________________________________