Robert Zatorre (Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill

Gebundenes Buch

From Perception to Pleasure

The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It

Beschreibung

In From Perception to Pleasure, Robert Zatorre discusses why we love music and what enables us to create it, perceive it, and enjoy it from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, explaining how we get from perception of sound patterns to pleasurable responses. Zatorre's richly illustrated book provides an integrative model for a large body of scientific knowledge that explains how patterns of abstract sounds can generate profoundly moving hedonic experiences.

Autor

Robert Zatorre was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied music and psychology at Boston University, and obtained his PhD at Brown University, followed by postdoctoral work at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University, where he currently holds a Canada Research Chair. His laboratory studies the neural substrates of auditory cognition, focusing on two characteristically human abilities: speech and music. Together with his many students and collaborators he has published more than 300 scientific papers on topics including pitch perception, musical imagery, music production, brain plasticity, hemispheric specialization, and the role of the reward system in musical pleasure. In 2006 he co-founded the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS). His work has been recognized by numerous international prizes, including the C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science (Amsterdam) and the Grand Prix Scientifique from the Institute for Hearing in Paris. He tries to keep up his baroque repertoire on the organ whenever he gets a chance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 978g
• ISBN-13: 9780197558287
• ISBN-10: 0197558283
• Artikelnr.: 68213300