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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession Fiction_Gift_Guide An actress who plays aIn 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