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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. It has been translated into 18 languages and spent more ...
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 ] It is Levitin's 3rd consecutive best-seller, debuting at #2 on the New York ...
The World in Six Songs. 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, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2008, and updated and released in paperback by Plume in 2009, and translated into six languages.
10. I Heard There Was A Secret Chord by Daniel J. Levitin. Some say laughter is the best medicine. Well, how about the songs of Leonard Cohen? In this new work, author and neuroscientist Daniel J ...
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age is a bestselling book [1][2][3] written by Daniel J. Levitin and originally published in 2016 by Dutton (Penguin Random House). It was published in 2017 in paperback with a revised introduction under the new title Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-truth Era; a ...
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.
With Daniel J. Levitin, he co-edited Foundations in Music Psychology, which reviews the state of the science on the neurological, cognitive, and social psychological bases of musical experiences. Rentfrow has served as a member of the senior editorial team for five psychology journals, including Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and ...