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Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian polymath, [1] cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. [2] 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 ...
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.
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2008. It was updated and released in paperback by Plume in 2009 and translated into six languages.
The Levitin effect is a phenomenon whereby people, even those without musical training, tend to remember songs in the correct key.The finding stands in contrast to the large body of laboratory literature suggesting that such details of perceptual experience are lost during the process of memory encoding, so that people would remember melodies with relative pitch, rather than absolute pitch.
Daniel Levitin was, at the time of the publication of A Field Guide to Lies, dean of social sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI, a faculty member at the Center for Executive Education at the Haas School of Business, [8] UC Berkeley, and professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University. [9]
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload is a bestselling popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the United States and Canada in 2014. [1]
Levitin (masculine) or Levitina (feminine) is a Russian Jewish surname (Леви́тин). It may refer to: It may refer to: Daniel Levitin (born 1957), American-Canadian cognitive psychologist, musician and writer
Researchers who have studied and written about the phenomenon include Theodor Reik, [17] Sean Bennett, [18] Oliver Sacks, [1] Daniel Levitin, [19] James Kellaris, [20] Philip Beaman, [21] Vicky Williamson, [22] Diana Deutsch, [23] and, in a more theoretical perspective, Peter Szendy, [24] along with many more.