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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
AuthorDaniel J. Levitin
CountryUnited States and Canada
LanguageEnglish
Subjectmusic theory, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, popular music, memoir
PublisherDutton Penguin
Publication date
2006
Published in English
August 2008
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages314
ISBN0-525-94969-0
OCLC196370454
Dewey Decimal
781.11
LC ClassML3830
Followed byThe World in Six Songs 

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2006, and updated and released in paperback by Plume/Penguin in 2007. It has been translated into 18 languages and spent more than a year on The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and other bestseller lists, and sold more than one million copies.[1]

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