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Daniel Joseph Levitin, PhD, FRSC, (born December 27, 1957, San Francisco) is an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, best-selling author, musician and record producer. He is James McGill Professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with additional appointments in music theory, computer science, and education; Director of the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill, and Dean of Arts and Humanities at The Minerva Schools at KGI. He is an elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science and the Royal Society of Canada.
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βAn organized mind leads effortlessly to good decision-making.β
βThe spiritual and emotional aspects of art are perhaps their most important qualities.β
βOn average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people.β
βConsonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex.β
βFondness for stories is just one of many artifacts, side effects of the way our brains work.β
βMemory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.β
βMusic changed more between 1963 and 1969 than it has in the 37 years since, with the Beatles among the architects of that change.β
βMozart had extensive training from his father, who was widely considered the greatest living music teacher in all of Europe at the time.β
βPrior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.β
βMusical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.β
βWe can say that speaking French "runs in families," but I don't know anyone who would claim that speaking French is genetic.β
βThe power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.β
βContour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melodyβthe sequence of ups or downs that the melody takesβregardless of the size of the interval.β
βThe information age has off-loaded a great deal of work previously done by people we could call information specialists onto all of the rest of us.β
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βMusic, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity.β
About Daniel Levitin
Daniel Joseph Levitin, PhD, FRSC, (born December 27, 1957, San Francisco) is an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, best-selling author, musician and record producer. He is James McGill Professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with additional appointments in music theory, computer science, and education; Director of the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill, and Dean of Arts and Humanities at The Minerva Schools at KGI. He is an elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science and the Royal Society of Canada.
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