This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

This Is Your Brain on Music

The Science of a Human Obsession

2006 • 314 pages

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The evopsych chapter was where the book went a bit weird for me. I shudder to think about certain evopsych dudes' worldview: if the ability to produce music in cis men came about because it is beneficial for attracting a mate, what do these evopsych dudes think about musicality in everyone else? (This is only one evopsych argument re: music, and it is not the only one; it's just the most annoying one IMO.)

Overall, I feel like I have a good understanding of what the state of neuroscience of music was like when this book was published.

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