This is Your Brain on Music

Otwierająca uszy i głowy analiza jednej z namiętności rządzących naturą człowieka! Daniel J. Levitin, niegdyś muzyk rockowy, a dziś neurobiolog, analizuje związek między muzyką – jej wykonaniami, kompozycją, sposobami słuchania i tym, co sprawia, że się nam podoba – a mózgiem człowieka. Wykorzystując najnowsze badania i przykłady muzyczne, od Mozarta, Elli Fitzgerald i U2, po Schönberga i Metallicę, Levitin pokazuje, dlaczego odczuwamy więź emocjonalną z muzyką, której słuchaliśmy, będąc nastolatkami, i jak kompozytorzy wykorzystują to, w jaki sposób nasz mózg racjonalizuje świat. Dochodzi też do niezwykłych wniosków – to 10 000 godzin ćwiczeń – a nie tylko talent – decyduje o tym, że możemy zostać wirtuozami! „Książka zabiera nas w...

We have long been encouraged to think of old age as synonymous with a decline in skills. Yet recent studies show that our decision making improves as we age, and our happiness levels peak in our eighties. What really happens to our brains as we get older? In The Changing Mind, neuroscientist, psychologist and internationally bestselling author Daniel Levitin invites us to dramatically shift our understanding of aging, demonstrating its many cognitive benefits. He draws on cutting-edge research to offer realistic guidelines and practical cognition-enhancing tricks for everyone to follow during every decade of their life, and show us what we all can learn from those who age joyously.

The New York Times bestselling book which examines how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with it Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life.

Author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin tackles the problems of twenty-first century information overload in his „New York Times” and „Sunday Times” bestselling book The Organized Mind. „Thought-provoking and practical... Good advice based on sound neuroscientific principles”. – „Sunday Times” „Impressively wide-ranging and thoughtful. There are fascinating facts and examples throughout”. – „Wall Street Journal” „Deservedly a bestseller... Levitin demonstrates how easily we are bamboozled by statistical tricks, making his points with pithy stories”. – „Independent” „Levitin is about as knowledgeable a guide to neuroscience as one might hope for”. – „New York Times Book Review” „More insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know......