Music activates almost every part of your brain
Photo: Jerry John
As you listen to your favorite music, your brain undergoes a flurry of neural activity that remains largely unknown to science.
Daniel Levitin is a cognitive neuroscientist who runs the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Levitin is the author of This is Your Brain on Music, the Science of a Human Obsession.
He spoke with Jorge Salazar about his research into how we perceive music.
NEW! Find related content with Sphere