This Is Your Brain on Music
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the
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Steven Pinker
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Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of
This Is Your Brain on Music
…focus of the book is on cognitive models of categorization and expectation, and how music exploits these cognitive processes. The book challenges Steven Pinker's "auditory cheesecake" assertion that music was an incidental by-product of evolution, arguing instead that music served as an indicator of cognitive…
Pinker in 2023
Pinker in 2011
Pinker at CSICon in 2018, hosted by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Pinker lecturing to humanists in the United Kingdom (2018)