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- Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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INSTANT TOP 10 BESTSELLER *New York Times *USAToday *Washington Post *LA Times"Debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove of practical, evidence-based guidance for living longer and better."—Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive SUCCESSFUL AGING delivers powerful insights: • Debunking the myth that memory always declines with age • Confirming that "health span"—not "life span"—is what matters • Proving that sixty-plus years is a unique and newly recognized developmental stage • Recommending that people look forward to joy, as reminiscing doesn't promote health Levitin looks at the science behind what we all can learn from those who age joyously, as well as how to adapt our culture to take full advantage of older people's wisdom and experience. Throughout his exploration of what aging really means, using research from developmental neuroscience and the psychology of individual differences, Levitin reveals resilience strategies and practical, cognitive- enhancing tricks everyone should do as they age. Successful Aging inspires a powerful new approach to how readers think about our final decades, and it will revolutionize the way we plan for old age as individuals, family members, and citizens within a society where the average life expectancy continues to rise. - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
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- E-bokEngelska, 2019
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A state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music psychology, written by leaders in the field.
This authoritative, landmark volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music perception and cognition. Eminent scholars from a range of disciplines, employing a variety of methodologies, describe important findings from core areas of the field, including music cognition, the neuroscience of music, musical performance, and music therapy. The book can be used as a textbook for courses in music cognition, auditory perception, science of music, psychology of music, philosophy of music, and music therapy, and as a reference for researchers, teachers, and musicians.
The book''s sections cover music perception; music cognition; music, neurobiology, and evolution; musical training, ability, and performance; and musical experience in everyday life. Chapters treat such topics as pitch, rhythm, and timbre; musical expectancy, musicality, musical disorders, and absolute pitch; brain processes involved in music perception, cross-species studies of music cognition, and music across cultures; improvisation, the assessment of musical ability, and singing; and music and emotions, musical preferences, and music therapy.
ContributorsFleur Bouwer, Peter Cariani, Laura K. Cirelli, Annabel J. Cohen, Lola L. Cuddy, Shannon de L''Etoile, Jessica A. Grahn, David M. Greenberg, Bruno Gingras, Henkjan Honing, Lorna S. Jakobson, Ji Chul Kim, Stefan Koelsch, Edward W. Large, Miriam Lense, Daniel Levitin, Charles J. Limb, Psyche Loui, Stephen McAdams, Lucy M. McGarry, Malinda J. McPherson, Andrew J. Oxenham, Caroline Palmer, Aniruddh Patel, Eve-Marie Quintin, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Edward Roth, Frank A. Russo, Rebecca Scheurich, Kai Siedenburg, Avital Sternin, Yanan Sun, William F. Thompson, Renee Timmers, Mark Jude Tramo, Sandra E. Trehub, Michael W. Weiss, Marcel Zentner
- Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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- E-bokEngelska, 2019
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- E-bokEngelska, 2008
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The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that “will leave you awestruck” (The New York Times).Daniel J. Levitin''s astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history.Here he identifies six fundamental song functions or types—friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love—then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these “six songs” work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species.Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolved—right up to the iPod. - E-bokEngelska, 2006
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In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he 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 headA Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, This Is Your Brain on Music will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind.In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today. He brings together, for the first time, the results of numerous studies on music and the brain, demonstrating how music can contribute to the treatment of a host of ailments, from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, to cognitive injury, depression, and pain.Levitin is not your typical scientist—he is also an award-winning musician and composer, and through lively interviews with some of today’s most celebrated musicians, from Sting to Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama, he shares their observations as to why music might be an effective therapy, in addition to plumbing scientific case studies, music theory, and music history. The result is a work of dazzling ideas, cutting-edge research, and jubilant celebration. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord highlights the critical role music has played in human biology, illuminating the neuroscience of music and its profound benefits for those both young and old. - Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind.In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today. He brings together, for the first time, the results of numerous studies on music and the brain, demonstrating how music can contribute to the treatment of a host of ailments, from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, to cognitive injury, depression, and pain.Levitin is not your typical scientist—he is also an award-winning musician and composer, and through lively interviews with some of today’s most celebrated musicians, from Sting to Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama, he shares their observations as to why music might be an effective therapy, in addition to plumbing scientific case studies, music theory, and music history. The result is a work of dazzling ideas, cutting-edge research, and jubilant celebration. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord highlights the critical role music has played in human biology, illuminating the neuroscience of music and its profound benefits for those both young and old. - E-bokEngelska, 2020
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- E-bokRyska, 2017
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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This is Your Brain on Music, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process—especially in election season. It''s raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them.It''s becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions, and outright lies from reliable information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categories—statistical infomation and faulty arguments—ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. Infoliteracy means understanding that there are hierarchies of source quality and bias that variously distort our information feeds via every media channel, including social media. We may expect newspapers, bloggers, the government, and Wikipedia to be factually and logically correct, but they so often aren''t. We need to think critically about the words and numbers we encounter if we want to be successful at work, at play, and in making the most of our lives. This means checking the plausibility and reasoning—not passively accepting information, repeating it, and making decisions based on it. Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection. Levitin''s charming, entertaining, accessible guide can help anyone wake up to a whole lot of things that aren''t so. And catch some lying weasels in their tracks! 67 kr
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New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we''re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up.But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing information flow. In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excel—and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time.With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives. This Is Your Brain on Music showed how to better play and appreciate music through an understanding of how the brain works. The Organized Mind shows how to navigate the churning flood of information in the twenty-first century with the same neuroscientific perspective.- E-bokRumänska, 2022
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Fie că asculți Bach, The Beatles sau Eminem, muzica joacă un rol esențial în viața ta – chiar dacă nu ți-ai dat seama niciodată de asta. Cum se face că muzica îți evocă emoții atât de puternice? Răspunsul începe să devină mai clar mulțumită progreselor din cadrul neuroștiințelor și al psihologiei evoluționiste. Creierul nostru muzical oferă cititorului nespecialist o viziune de ansamblu asupra studiilor din domeniu, răspunzând totodată unor întrebări foarte diverse: sunt preferințele noastre muzicale dobândite în perioada intrauterină? Există o limită de vârstă dincolo de care nu-ți mai poți schimba gusturile în materie de muzică? Diferă plăcerea ascultării unei melodii de celelalte plăceri?Pentru a oferi o viziune cât mai cuprinzătoare asupra muzicii, Levitin o abordează din perspective diferite, descriind culturi în care cântatul este considerat o capacitate umană fundamentală și în care toți membrii comunității cântă în mod regulat – spre deosebire de societățile moderne, unde interpretarea muzicii a devenit apanajul unor cunoscători. Studiile asupra pacienților cu boli neurologice care îi împiedică să guste muzica și asupra persoanelor înzestrate cu ureche muzicală absolută, care pot reproduce o compoziție după o singură audiție, oferă și ele numeroase detalii despre cum anume transformă creierul nostru vibrațiile instrumentelor în sunete și melodii.Foarte bine documentată și scrisă într-un limbaj accesibil, cartea de față este un omagiu adus frumuseții muzicii în toate formele ei, de la ritmurile tribale până la rock și hip-hop, propunându-și să elucideze modul în care datele noastre biologice se îmbină cu educația pentru a da naștere experienței muzicale.„O privire de ansamblu asupra muzicii pe care doar un neurocercetător ne-o putea oferi.“ Oliver Sacks, autorul bestsellerului Omul care își confunda soția cu o pălărie„Levitin explică muzica pe înțelesul nemuzicienilor și al celor nefamiliarizați cu știința, ajutându-ne să înțelegem de ce suntem atât de fascinați de universul armoniilor sonore.“ Los Angeles Times Book Review„O carte scrisă cu talent și ingeniozitate, plină de detalii științifice captivante.“ The New York Times
- E-bokSpanska, 2019
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Estamos rodeados de noticias y datos falsos que en algunos casos no dejan de repetirse. Y, como sostiene Levitin, seguramente somos demasiado puntillosos cuando nos referimos a las falsedades. Quizá en un esfuerzo por mantener la concordia, hemos empezado a utilizar eufemismos para aludir a cosas absurdas: teorías marginales, medias verdades, verdades alternativas, hipérboles... Pero "la verdad sí importa. Una era de la posverdad es una era de irracionalidad deliberada, que se opone a todos los grandes avances de la humanidad (afirma el autor)... y la mejor defensa contra los embusteros taimados, la defensa más fiable, es que todos nosotros nos convirtamos en pensadores críticos". Este libro nos proporciona herramientas y estrategias para valorar la información y ver que muchas cosas simplemente no son como se nos dice. - E-bokSpanska, 2018
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UNA NUEVA FORMA DE ENTENDER LA MÚSICA Y LA VIDA.Si todos sabemos (o intuimos) que la música nos despierta los sentidos, este libro nos ayudará a entender cómo lo hace. El músico y neurocientífico Daniel J. Levitin compone en estas páginas una amena sinfonía de la mano de Mozart, Ella Fitzgerald o los Beatles para mostrarnos por qué escuchar música es un gran placer.«Una visión de conjunto maravillosa, a manos del único neurocientífico que podía hacerlo. Un libro importante».OLIVER SACKS
