In Music, Language, and the Brain, Aniruddh Patel synthesizes research from cognitive neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and musicology to argue that music and language share deep, structured neural and cognitive mechanisms, while also highlighting important differences in how the brain processes each.
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Daniel Levitin explores the neuroscience and psychology of music, explaining how the brain perceives, processes, remembers, and emotionally responds to musical sound. The book synthesizes research across cognitive neuroscience, perception, and music theory to reveal why music is a universal human phenomenon and how it shapes our cognition and emotion.
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In Musicophilia, neurologist Oliver Sacks explores the complex relationship between music and the human brain, presenting case histories of patients whose neurological conditions reveal how deeply music is intertwined with memory, emotion, identity, and perception. He shows that music can both reveal unexpected neural capacities and reveal the brain’s neuroplasticity, especially in the face of injury or disease.
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