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Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. How come music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, because of revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the wonder of music itself, This Is Your Brain on Music unravels a bunch of mysteries that affect from pop culture to our knowledge of human nature, including:
• Are our musical preferences shaped in utero?
• Is there a cutoff point for acquiring new tastes in music?
• What do PET scans and MRIs reveal about the brain’s response to music?
• Is musical pleasure not the same as other sorts of pleasure?
This Is Your Brain on Music explores cultures where singing is known as an important human function, patients who've a rare disorder that prevents them from making sense of music, and scientists studying why two people may well not have the same definition of pitch. At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how exactly nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession.
