This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science Of a Huma

Quarterly Book Review

For this quarters go for review I chose to read This Is Your Brain on Music: the Science of a Human Obsession, which delves rather deeply into the neuroscience behind our favorite symphony. The book jumped out at me on my search for a psychology book because I am such a sports fan of music; and I found an immediate interest in discovering if my taste in music really was related to my unconscious or a predisposition.
The Author, Daniel Levitin, did a wonderful job at the very difficult task of explaining the relationship between music conjecture and neuroscience. He even managed to do so in a way that made it easy to understand and view by use a wide range of touristy examples. No matter your taste in music, Levitin left a relatable picture with his choice examples and analogies. Emphasis was put on the complexness of the cerebral process of listening to music and deciphering the layered sounds in real time. Our brains are capable of identifying multiple instruments or voices using only vibrations in the air. Levitin gave a lot of credit to the military man brain and its ability to keep track of such unthinkable things.
There were heavy elements of Physics and music theory, as soundly as psychology in this book.



Basic music theory included agitate intervals and some explanation of terms comparable harmony, consonance, and dissonance. Basically explaining why the brain recognizes sounds as pleasant or brash. Thats also where the physics comes in, with the vibrating air molecules and the technical nerve of things, but I would defiantly classify this book as psychology book at its core.
Perhaps his most interest point was also related to the complexity of the brain. Levitin says that sounds dont inherently carry any pitch, and our brains use the eardrum to rate the frequency and oscillation of the molecules, and simultaneously assign a pitch to it. He even goes as far as to narrow down the age old riddle If a tree travel in the woods and nobody is around to hear it,...If you desire to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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