Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1400033535
ISBN 13
9781400033539
Category
Psychology
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Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Pages
425
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Description
This book, by medical writer Oliver Sacks, contains almost thirty entertaining case studies of the extraordinary influence that music can have on the human brain. These case studies include those of a man who began compulsively writing piano music after having been struck by lightning, a man who could still play music after a brain infection destroyed nearly all of his memory, and a synesthetic composer who perceives different musical keys as different colors, as well as essays about music as a treatment for diseases such as Parkinson’s and dementia. The essays are loosely divided into four parts: “Haunted by Music,” “A Range of Musicality,” “Memory, Movement, and Music,” and “Emotion, Identity, and Music.”
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