Daniel J. Levitin

(1957) Psychologist

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Daniel J. Levitin is a psychologist.

Quick Facts About Daniel J. Levitin

Born: December 27, 1957
Profession: Psychologist

About Daniel J. Levitin

[Wikidata] American psychologist... | [Wikipedia] Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC is an American-Canadian polymath, cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is the author of four New York Times best-selling books, including This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, which has sold more than 1

Quotes by Daniel J. Levitin

“The lie that terrorists want you to believe is that you are in immediate and great peril.”

Daniel J. Levitin

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“If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match…

Daniel J. Levitin

Listening to music

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“The work of artists and scietists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth is its…

Daniel J. Levitin

Art

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“Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.”

Daniel J. Levitin

Brain

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“Would they prefer to talk to the person next to them or sit quietly by themselves? Overwhelmingly, people said they’d rather sit…

Daniel J. Levitin

Communication

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“When they find out what I do for a living, many people tell me they love music listening, but their music lessons…

Daniel J. Levitin

Communication

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“Getting organized can bring us all to the next level in our lives. It’s the human condition to fall prey to old…

Daniel J. Levitin

Global economy

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“Writing them down gives both implicit and explicit permission to the rehearsal loop to let them go, to relax its neural circuits…

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“Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth;…

Daniel J. Levitin

Nature

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