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MUSICOPHILIA: TALES OF MUSIC AND THE BRAIN
by Oliver Sacks
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Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does - humans are a musical species. Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling with different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. Here he examines the powers of music, from a man struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome who are hypermusical from birth, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds for everything but music. Our exquisite sensitivity to music can sometimes go wrong: catchy tunes can subject us to hours of mental replay; a surprising number of people acquire musical hallucinations. Yet far more frequently, music goes right: it can animate people with Parkinsons disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimers. Hardcover. 381 pp.
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$26.00
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