This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession [I Love Music and I Love Science¿Why Would I Want to Mix the Two? -- 1. What is Music? -- From Pitch to Timbre -- 2. The First Song Foot Tappin'. Discerning Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony -- 3. Behind the Curtain -- Music and the Mind Machine -- 1. How Music Gets in Our Heads -- 4. And What It Does There Anticipation What We Expect From Beethoven (and Busta Rhymes) -- 5. You Know My Name, Look Up The Number -- What Makes a Musician? -- How We Categorize Music -- 6. After Dessert, Crick Was Still Four Seats Away From Me Music, Emotion, and the Reptilian Brain -- Your Favorite Music Explained (Why does music move us? Why do we like what we like?) -- 7. What Makes a Musician?]

[1st ed.], 9th printing ; Contents: Introduction -- I Love Music and I Love Science¿Why Would I Want to Mix the Two? -- 1. What is Music? -- From Pitch to Timbre -- 2. The First Song Foot Tappin'. Discerning Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony -- 3. Behind the Curtain -- Music and the Mind Machine -- 1. How Music Gets in Our Heads -- 4. And What It Does There Anticipation What We Expect From Beethoven (and Busta Rhymes) -- 5. You Know My Name, Look Up The Number -- What Makes a Musician? -- How We Categorize Music -- 6. After Dessert, Crick Was Still Four Seats Away From Me Music, Emotion, and the Reptilian Brain -- Your Favorite Music Explained (Why does music move us? Why do we like what we like?) -- 7. What Makes a Musician? -- Expertise Dissected -- 8. My Favorite Things Why Do We Like The Music We Like? -- 9. ConclusionThe Music Instinct -- Evolution's #1 Hit -- Appendix -- Bibliographic Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Explores the relationship between the mind and music by drawing on recent findings in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to discuss such topics as the sources of musical tastes and the brain's responses to music ; Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bestselling author. He trained at Stanford University Medical School, The University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Oregon. He is founding dean of Arts and Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University. He is the author of This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, and A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics. He divides his time between Montreal and California.; FINE/FINE.…