The Science Behind How our Brains Process Music
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Interview with Daniel Levitin author ofThis Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession that explains the complex relationship between neuroscience and music."There???s a particular part of the brain that responds to pleasurable things like winning a lot of money, taking cocaine, or having an orgasm. That???s been known for years, but with my colleague from Stanford Medical School, Vinod Menon, I found that the same region of the brain responds to pleasurable music. People tell you that they like music, but to actually see music activating this pleasure centre in a brain image was surprising. We like to think of it as the sex, drugs, and rock ???n??? roll centre of the brain."http://www.innovationcanada.com/31/en/articles/levitin.html
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Ridiculous.
It also helped me think about how important Melody and repitition is in songwriting.
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