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Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy examines why music captivates us and the powerful connections we form to it. The author blends science, psychology, and philosophy, drawing on global musical examples to explain how melodies, rhythm, and sound structure elicit pleasure, memory, and emotion. He illustrates these concepts with neurological case studies—such as savants, composers with hallucinated works, and patients who move only to music—highlighting the parallels between musical and linguistic processing in the brain.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
Authors: Jourdain, Robert.
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