Wired News: Music Makes Your Brain Happy:
By Randy Dotinga| Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Aug, 23, 2006
As a rock producer, Daniel Levitin worked with Stevie Wonder, the Grateful Dead and Chris Isaak. But the music business began to change, and a disillusioned Levitin turned to academia, where a career in neuroscience beckoned. Sixteen years after he made the switch, Levitin is an associate professor at McGill University in Montreal and one of the world’s leading experts in cognitive music perception. In his new book, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, Levitin explores research into how our brains process the works of artists as varied as Beethoven, the Beatles and Britney Spears, and why they make us feel so good. Wired News picks his brain about how it all works.
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