Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Ranked #1 in Sound, Ranked #3 in Music — see more rankings.
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven... more
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Aniela Gregorek I gained a deeper understanding of how music affects our moods and our brains. (Source)
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Rankings by Category
Musicophilia is ranked in the following categories:
- #18 in Brain
- #29 in Dementia
- #22 in Educational Psychology
- #18 in Human Brain
- #55 in Life Sciences
- #71 in Medical
- #39 in Medicine
- #84 in Mind
- #26 in Music History
- #10 in Music Theory
- #6 in Neurology
- #8 in Neuroscience
- #20 in Physical Therapy
- #47 in Physiology
- #17 in Piano
- #35 in Psychiatry
- #82 in Psychology
- #96 in Science
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