This Is Your Brain On Music

Introduction - I Love Music and I Love Science - Why Would I Want to Mix the Two? 1. What Is Music? From Pitch to Timbre 2. Foot Tapping - Discerning Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony 3. Behind the Curtain - Music and the Mind Machine 4. Anticipation - What We Expect from Liszt (and Ludacris) 5. You Know My Name, Look Up the Number - How We Categorize Music 6. After Dessert, Crick Was Still Four Seats Away from Me - Music, Emotion, and the Reptilian Brain 7. What Makes a Musician? Expertise Dissected 8. My Favorite Things - Why Do We Like the Music We Like? 9. The Music Instinct - Evolution's #1 Hit Appendices Bibliographic Notes Acknowledgements Index