Daniel J. Levitin

Born 1957

From San Francisco, California, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction

Daniel J. Levitin runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication. Before becoming a neuroscientist, he worked as a session musician, sound engineer and record producer.

Quotes

“Music moves us because it serves as a metaphor for emotional life. It has peaks and valleys of tension and release. It mimics the dynamics of our emotional life.”
Australian Broadcasting Corporation October 11, 2013
“The multiple reinforcing cues of a good song—rhythm, melody, contour—cause music to stick in our heads.”
This is Your Brain on Music

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Books by Daniel J. Levitin in order

Books by Daniel J. Levitin in the order they were published, from Foundations of Cognitive Psychology (2002) to I Heard There Was a Secret Chord (2024).

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