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Article: Musical brain story sung off-key
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- August 20, 2006
CopyrightCopyright F.P. Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership Aug 20, 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Reviewed by Jeff Presslaff
This Is Your Brain on Music
The Science of a Human Obsession
By Daniel J. Levitin
Dutton, 256 pages $32.50
AS they say in the newspaper game, he buried the lead.
To wit:
"The story of your brain on music is the story of an exquisite orchestration of brain regions, involving both the oldest and newest parts of the human brain, and regions as far apart as the cerebellum in the back of the head and the frontal lobes just behind your eyes. It involves a precision choreography of neurochemical release and uptake between logical prediction systems and emotional reward systems. When we love a piece of music, it reminds us of other music we have heard, and it ...