Daniel J. Levitin

Explores the relationship between the mind and music by drawing on recent findings in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to discuss topics such as the sources of musical tastes and the brain's responses to music.

The Science of a Human Obsession

This is Your Brain on Music

We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them.

Critical Thinking in the Information Age

A Field Guide to Lies

New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details. The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up. But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing information flow. In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excel—and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time. With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives. This Is Your Brain on Music showed how to better play and appreciate music through an understanding of how the brain works. The Organized Mind shows how to navigate the churning flood of information in the twenty-first century with the same neuroscientific perspective.

Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

The Organized Mind

"[The author] turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age; why we should think about health span, not life span; and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, how you can make the most of your seventies, eighties, and nineties today, no matter how old you are now"--

A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

Successful Aging

Analyzes six evolutionary musical forms while identifying neural impulses that reflect the brain's development in accordance with music, illuminating the sophisticated biological process that accompanies the musical experience.

How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

The World in Six Songs

The neuroscientist author of This Is Your Brain on Music evaluates how the human brain responds to today's information-driven culture, drawing on the latest scientific discoveries to explore how the brain is struggling or adapting in the areas of att

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Previously Published as A Field Guide to Lies We're surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track. Here are the fundamental lessons in critical thinking that we need to know and share now. Investigating numerical misinformation, Daniel Levitin shows how mishandled statistics and graphs can give a grossly distorted perspective and lead us to terrible decisions. Wordy arguments on the other hand can easily be persuasive as they drift away from the facts in an appealing yet misguided way. The steps we can take to better evaluate news, advertisements, and reports are clearly detailed. Ultimately, Levitin turns to what underlies our ability to determine if something is true or false: the scientific method. He grapples with the limits of what we can and cannot know. Case studies are offered to demonstrate the applications of logical thinking to quite varied settings, spanning courtroom testimony, medical decision making, magic, modern physics, and conspiracy theories. This urgently needed book enables us to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection. As Levitin attests: Truth matters. A post-truth era is an era of willful irrationality, reversing all the great advances humankind has made. Euphemisms like "fringe theories," "extreme views," "alt truth," and even "fake news" can literally be dangerous. Let's call lies what they are and catch those making them in the act.

How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era

Weaponized Lies

An anthology of core readings on cognitive psychology.

Core Readings

Foundations of Cognitive Psychology

Music As Medicine

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

O autor e neurocientista Daniel J. Levitin aborda o problema do excesso de informação no século XXI em seu novo best-seller do New York Times. Poderia a boa e velha organização ser o segredo fundamental para se navegar no mar de informações do mundo moderno? Enquanto notícias, textos, contas e aplicativos invadem nosso cotidiano, espera-se que tomemos rapidamente decisões cada vez maiores. Em capítulos instigantes sobre temas que vão desde a gaveta bagunçada da cozinha até cuidados com a saúde, David Levitin apresenta avanços recentes nos estudos sobre o cérebro e mostra métodos que podemos aplicar no dia a dia para adquirir uma sensação de controle sobre a maneira como organizamos nossos lares, nossos ambientes de trabalho e nossas vidas.

Como pensar com clareza na era da sobrecarga de informação

A mente organizada

Dana-Ligia Ilin

știința unei eterne obsesii

Creierul nostru muzical

Twenty-first century society is drowning in information, and the highest achievers are the most at risk . . . Every day we are bombarded with new facts, figures, stories, theories and demands on our attention. We expect our brains to process ever higher volumes of data but all this information comes at a cost. Relentless external pressure leads to information overload- absent mindedness, poor decision-making, lowered efficiency and even a suppressed capacity for creative thought. Understanding this pitfall is ever more crucial to surviving and thriving in the digital age. In The Organized Mind, neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin investigates and explains exactly how we got here, from the early building blocks of language to why email is so addictive. There is an alternative to wrestling with all this information- Levitin demonstrates how to ease your mental burden by storing information in the physical world instead. Case studies and worked examples cover smarter decision-making, improving memory and attention, identifying what information is and is not important, and organizing your time, your space and your relationships successfully. By analysing how your brain works, The Organized Mindwill help you function better, go further, and find more time to do the things you really want to do.

The Organised Mind

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 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 hasta Van Halen, pasando por Duke Elington, Levitin desvela multitud de misterios. ¿Tenemos un límite para adquirir nuevos gustos musicales? ¿Qué revelan los escáneres sobre las respuestas del cerebro a la música? ¿Nuestras preferencias musicales se determinan en el útero?

El estudio científico de una obsesión humana

Tu cerebro y la música

The Organized Mind / The Power of Habit / Thinking Fast and Slow

Bir Saplantinin Bilimsel Incelemesi

Müzigin Etkisindeki Beyin

From 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 process—especially in election season. It's 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. It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions, and outright lies from reliable information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categories—statistical infomation and faulty arguments—ultimately 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 aren't. 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 reasoning—not passively accepting information, repeating it, and making decisions based on it. Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection. Levitin's charming, entertaining, accessible guide can help anyone wake up to a whole lot of things that aren't so. And catch some lying weasels in their tracks!

INSTANT TOP 10 BESTSELLER *New York Times *USAToday *Washington Post *LA Times "Debunks 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 doesn't promote health Levitin 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 people's 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.

 Anjali Bhatara

Petri Laukka

Two of the most important social skills in humans are the ability to determine the moods of those around us, and to use this to guide our behavior. To accomplish this, we make use of numerous cues. Among the most important are vocal cues from both speech and non-speech sounds. Music is also a reliable method for communicating emotion. It is often present in social situations and can serve to unify a group's mood for ceremonial purposes (funerals, weddings) or general social interactions. Scientists and philosophers have speculated on the origins of music and language, and the possible common bases of emotional expression through music, speech and other vocalizations. They have found increasing evidence of commonalities among them. However, the domains in which researchers investigate these topics do not always overlap or share a common language, so communication between disciplines has been limited. The aim of this Research Topic is to bring together research across multiple disciplines related to the production and perception of emotional cues in music, speech, and non-verbal vocalizations. This includes natural sounds produced by human and non-human primates as well as synthesized sounds. Research methodology includes survey, behavioral, and neuroimaging techniques investigating adults as well as developmental populations, including those with atypical development. Studies using laboratory tasks as well as studies in more naturalistic settings are included.

Expression of emotion in music and vocal communication

Wir leben in einer Welt der Informationsüberflutung, in der die Grenze zwischen Wahrheit und "alternativen" Fakten, Halbwahrheiten und halbseidenen Theorien mehr und mehr verschwimmt und deren Unterscheidung zunehmend schwieriger fällt. Mehr noch, Falschaussagen werden gerade über Social Media gezielt platziert und eingesetzt, um Menschen zu beeinflussen. Doch wie kann man sich heute noch verlässlich informieren, wenn jeder per Klick zum "Experten" werden kann? Wie entkommt man den Filterblasen und entlarvt Falschmeldungen? Und wie erkennt man, ob eine Aussage oder Zahl richtig ist? Bestsellerautor und Neurowissenschaftler Daniel Levitin zeigt in seiner Anleitung, wie Fakten, Statistiken und Aussagen umgehend geprüft werden können. Das perfekte Buch für alle, die einen besseren Durchblick wollen.

Fake News, Halbwahrheiten und Pseudo-Fakten entlarven

Kritisch denken im Zeitalter der Lügen

Rock Around the Brain Musik ist für unsere Gehirnzellen wie eine Droge. Sie kann uns mitreißen, Glücksgefühle bescheren und in einen Rausch versetzen – oder auch traurig oder melancholisch machen. Aber warum ist das so? Woher bezieht Musik ihre Macht, ihre Magie? Und warum kann sich kaum jemand ihrer Wirkung entziehen? Daniel Levitin, der die Neugier des Neurowissenschaftlers mit der Erfahrung des erfolgreichen Musikproduzenten verbindet, erkundet in diesem Buch die vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Musik, Gefühl, Gehirn und Geist. Absolut anregend, ein wunderbarer Überblick, wie ihn nur ein zutiefst musikalischer Neurowissenschaftler geben kann. ... Ein bedeutendes Buch. Oliver Sacks Diese Lehrstunde über die Erklärungskraft der Kognitionspsychologie ist ein Muss für alle musikinteressierten Studenten und Fachleute. Gehirn und Geist Musik scheint eine geradezu eigensinnige, schwer fassbare Qualität zu besitzen, die einer einfachen Erklärung nicht zugänglich ist, so dass sich immer neue Fragen stellen, je mehr wir darüber wissen, ohne dass unser Bohren ihre Macht und ihr Geheimnis entschlüsseln könnte. Es mag kein Ende und keine einfache Antwort in Sicht sein, aber die Reise selbst ist aufregend, insbesondere wenn man sie mit einem Autor unternimmt, der nicht nur ein ausgezeichneter Musiker und ein hartnäckiger Forscher ist, sondern auch jemand, der das Staunen über die Welt nicht verlernt hat. Sting Daniel Levitin hat ein wunderbares und faszinierendes Buch geschrieben – für Musiker, Psychologen und alle, die die Faszination an Musik teilen und schon immer verstehen wollten, was mit uns geschieht, wenn wir Musik hören. Das Orchester Die englische Originalausgabe dieses Buches, Your Brain on Music, stand zwölf Monate lang auf der New York Times-Bestsellerliste.

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