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born 1957 United States
United States Academics Educators Journalists Music producers Also known as: Daniel J Levitin, Daniel J Levitin PhD FRSC, Daniel J. Levitin, Daniel J. Levitin PhD, FRSC, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD FRSC, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, FRSC
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It's not just that we remember things wrongly, but we don't even know we're remembering them wrongly, doggedly insisting that the inaccuracies are in fact true.
The Organized Mind (2014)
Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
So much of the research on musical expertise has looked for accomplishment in the wrong place, in the facility of the fingers rather than the expressiveness of emotion.
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Music's evolutionary origin is established because it is present across all humans; it has been around for a long time; it involves specialized brain structures... and it is analogous to music making in other species.
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don’t know it.
The Organized Mind (2014)
One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques.
The multiple reinforcing cues of a good song—rhythm, melody, contour—cause music to stick in our heads. That is the reason why many ancient myths, epics, and even the Old Testament were set to music in preparation for being passed down by oral tradition across generations.
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
For language to be generative, children must not be learning by rote. Music is also generative. For every musical phrase I hear, I can always add a note... to generate a new musical phrase.
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
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