Daniel J. Levitin

UNA NUEVA FORMA DE ENTENDER LA MÚSICA Y LA VIDA. Si todos sabemos (o intuimos) que la música nos despierta los sentidos, este libro nos ayudará a entender cómo lo hace. El músico y neurocientífico Daniel J. Levitin compone en estas paginas una amena sinfonia de la mano de Mozart, Ella Fitzgerald o los Beatles para mostrarnos por que escuchar musica es un gran placer.Una vision de conjunto maravillosa, a manos del unico neurocientifico que podia hacerlo. Un libro importante. OLIVER SACKS

El poder de la música no tiene límites. No solo ejerce una influencia fundamental en nuestra mente, sino que además es capaz de condicionar sociedades enteras a lo largo de la historia. A partir de seis tipos de canciones, relacionados cada uno de ellos con una emocion, el cientifico y musico Daniel J. Levitin demuestra como estas afectan a nuestros vinculos sociales hasta el punto de cambiar nuestra cultura humana.En este asombroso libro, musica, biologia y antropologia se dan la mano para demostrar como una melodia puede cambiar el mundo.

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Thought-provoking and practical ... Good advice based on sound neuroscientific principlesSunday TimesIn The Organized Mind, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin offers solutions for the problems of information overload.___________________________________________________Overwhelmed by demands on your time? Baffled by the sheer volume of data?Youre not alone. Even the smartest mind cant beat the organized mind - when were unable to make sense of it all, our creativity plummets, our decision making suffers and we grow absent-minded. Nowadays, we drown under emails, forever juggle six tasks at once and try to make complex decisions ever more quickly. This is information overload.Using a combination of academic research and examples from daily life, Daniel Levitin explains how to take back control of your life, from healthcare to online dating to raising kids, showing that the secret to success is always organization. Youll discover life-changing facts about:- How to make the most of your brains daily processing limit- Why pressing Send or clicking Like are addictive- Why daydreaming is your brain at its most productive - What the most successful people keep in their drawer- Why multitasking is a bad way to do nearly everythingIn a world where information is power, The Organized Mind holds the key to harnessing that information and making it work for you.

El poder de la música no tiene límites. No solo ejerce una influencia fundamental en nuestra mente, sino que además es capaz de condicionar sociedades enteras a lo largo de la historia. A partir de seis tipos de canciones, relacionados cada uno de ellos con una emocion, el cientifico y musico Daniel J. Levitin demuestra como estas afectan a nuestros vinculos sociales hasta el punto de cambiar nuestra cultura humana. En este asombroso libro, musica, biologia y antropologia se dan la mano para demostrar como una melodia puede cambiar el mundo.

La música, como el lenguaje, forma parte de lo más profundo de la naturaleza humana. Escuches a Bach o a Bono, la música tiene un papel muy significativo en tu vida. ¿Por qué la música despierta distintos estados de animo? Levitin se sirve de la neurociencia mas avanzada y de la mas rigurosa psicologia evolutiva para ofrecernos respuestas. Recurriendo a las ultimas investigaciones y con ejemplos de piezas musicales que van desde Mozart hasta Van Halen, pasando por Duke Elington, Levitin desvela multitud de misterios. ¿Tenemos un limite para adquirir nuevos gustos musicales? ¿Que revelan los escaneres sobre las respuestas del cerebro a la musica? ¿Nuestras preferencias musicales se determinan en el utero?

Ediço revista e atualizada. Best-seller internacional do autor de A mente organizada. Com exemplos musicais de Mozart a Eminem, passando por Bach, U2 e tantos outros, este livro nos leva a um entendimento cientifico abrangente sobre o modo como experimentamos a musica e seu papel impar nas nossas vidas.* Eleito pela Billboard um dos 15 livros que todo f de musica deveria ler". A musica e uma obsesso que esta no cerne da natureza humana, e talvez seja mais fundamental para a nossa especie do que a linguagem. Neste livro fascinante, o neurocientista, psicologo e autor best-seller Daniel Levitin tenta entender o poder que ela exerce sobre nossa consciencia, e estuda sua relaço com a atividade cerebral: como o cerebro percebe a musica, e o que a musica nos ensina sobre o cerebro? Com base nas mais recentes pesquisas da neurociencia e da psicologia, Levitin revela o papel da musica na evoluço humana, mostra como nossas preferencias musicais começam a se formar mesmo antes de nascermos e explica por que a musica nos oferece experiencias emocionais to profundas. A musica no seu cerebro apresenta um novo olhar sobre a musica e o que ela pode nos ensinar sobre nos mesmos."Muito estimulante, com uma perspectiva fantastica. Um livro importantissimo." Oliver Sacks"O livro de Levitin e eloquente e poetico. E gratificante acompanhar a pesquisa de um autor que e um notavel musico, um conceituado cientista e alguem que ainda se encanta ao contemplar o universo." Sting

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between musicits performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy itand the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he reveals: How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise How those insidious little jingles (called earworms) get stuck in our headA Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, This Is Your Brain on Music will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.

The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals musics role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that will leave you awestruck (The New York Times).Daniel J. Levitins astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history.Here he identifies six fundamental song functions or typesfriendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and lovethen shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these six songs work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species.Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolvedright up to the iPod.

Winner of the National Business Book AwardFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain on Music, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can processespecially in election season. Its raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports, revealing the ways lying weasels can use them. Its becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, and distortions from reliable information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categoriesstatistical information and faulty argumentsultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. Infoliteracy means understanding that there are hierarchies of source quality and bias that variously distort our information feeds via every media channel, including social media. We may expect newspapers, bloggers, the government, and Wikipedia to be factually and logically correct, but they so often arent. We need to think critically about the words and numbers we encounter if we want to be successful at work, at play, and in making the most of our lives. This means checking the plausibility and reasoningnot passively accepting information, repeating it, and making decisions based on it. Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection. Levitins charming, entertaining, accessible guide can help anyone wake up to a whole lot of things that arent so. And catch some weasels in their tracks!

INSTANT TOP 10 BESTSELLER New York Times USA Today Washington Post LA TimesDebunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove of practical, evidence-based guidance for living longer and better.Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive SUCCESSFUL AGING delivers powerful insights: Debunking the myth that memory always declines with age Confirming that "health span"not "life span"is what matters Proving that sixty-plus years is a unique and newly recognized developmental stage Recommending that people look forward to joy, as reminiscing doesnt promote healthLevitin looks at the science behind what we all can learn from those who age joyously, as well as how to adapt our culture to take full advantage of older peoples wisdom and experience. Throughout his exploration of what aging really means, using research from developmental neuroscience and the psychology of individual differences, Levitin reveals resilience strategies and practical, cognitive enhancing tricks everyone should do as they age. Successful Aging inspires a powerful new approach to how readers think about our final decades, and it will revolutionize the way we plan for old age as individuals, family members, and citizens within a society where the average life expectancy continues to rise.

UNA NUEVA FORMA DE ENTENDER LA MÚSICA Y LA VIDA.Si todos sabemos (o intuimos) que la música nos despierta los sentidos, este libro nos ayudará a entender cómo lo hace. El músico y neurocientífico Daniel J. Levitin compone en estas paginas una amena sinfonia de la mano de Mozart, Ella Fitzgerald o los Beatles para mostrarnos por que escuchar musica es un gran placer.Una vision de conjunto maravillosa, a manos del unico neurocientifico que podia hacerlo. Un libro importante.OLIVER SACKS

Estamos rodeados de noticias y datos falsos que en algunos casos no dejan de repetirse. Y, como sostiene Levitin, seguramente somos demasiado puntillosos cuando nos referimos a las falsedades. Quizá en un esfuerzo por mantener la concordia, hemos empezado a utilizar eufemismos para aludir a cosas absurdas: teorias marginales, medias verdades, verdades alternativas, hiperboles... Pero "la verdad si importa. Una era de la posverdad es una era de irracionalidad deliberada, que se opone a todos los grandes avances de la humanidad (afirma el autor)... y la mejor defensa contra los embusteros taimados, la defensa mas fiable, es que todos nosotros nos convirtamos en pensadores criticos". Este libro nos proporciona herramientas y estrategias para valorar la informacion y ver que muchas cosas simplemente no son como se nos dice.

Estamos rodeados de noticias y datos falsos que en algunos casos no dejan de repetirse. Y, como sostiene Levitin, seguramente somos demasiado puntillosos cuando nos referimos a las falsedades. Quizá en un esfuerzo por mantener la concordia, hemos empezado a utilizar eufemismos para aludir a cosas absurdas: teorias marginales, medias verdades, verdades alternativas, hiperboles... Pero "la verdad si importa. Una era de la posverdad es una era de irracionalidad deliberada, que se opone a todos los grandes avances de la humanidad (afirma el autor)... y la mejor defensa contra los embusteros taimados, la defensa mas fiable, es que todos nosotros nos convirtamos en pensadores criticos". Este libro nos proporciona herramientas y estrategias para valorar la informacion y ver que muchas cosas simplemente no son como se nos dice.

¿Por qué la música despierta distintos estados de ánimo? Levitin se sirve de la neurociencia más avanzada y de la más rigurosa psicología evolutiva para ofrecernos respuestas. Recurriendo a las últimas investigaciones y con ejemplos de piezas musicales que van desde Mozart, Duke Ellington a Van Halen, Levitin desvela multitud de misterios. ¿Tenemos un limite para adquirir nuevos gustos musicales? ¿Que revelan los escaneres sobre las respuestas del cerebro a la musica? ¿Nuestras preferencias musicales se determinan en el utero? ¿Es el placer musical diferente de otro tipo de placer? ¿Por que estamos tan emocionalmente unidos a la musica que escuchabamos cuando eramos adolescentes? La musica, como el lenguaje, forma parte de lo mas profundo de la naturaleza humana.