What's going on in our brains and bodies when we experience waves of nostalgia in the holiday season? We talk to musician and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin about the medicine of music. JOSE FELICIANO: ...

Daniel Levitin was in his 30s when he went back to college and got a degree in cognitive psychology, launching the career that has made him a best-selling author. His first book, This Is Your Brain on ...

Both Levitin and Long Island’s Robert Catell, former chairman and CEO of KeySpan Corporation and KeySpan Energy Delivery, will be awarded honorary degrees at the event. Levitin is the author of five ...

The cover of "I Heard There Was A Secret Chord" beside author Daniel J. Levitin. (Courtesy of Daniel J. Levitin) Music can have profound benefits for humans. It can promote healing, ease pain, treat ...

In a lecture titled “This is Your Brain on Music: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Musical Experience” yesterday afternoon in the James Stewart Theater at 185 Nassau, Levitin spoke to around 180 students ...

This post is a review of I Heard There Was A Secret Chord: Music As Medicine. By Daniel J. Levitin. W.W. Norton & Co. 405 pp. $32.50. In 1993, Nature magazine reported on a study suggesting that ...

Think of a song that resonates deep down in your being. Now imagine sitting down with someone who was there when the song was recorded and can tell you how that series of sounds was committed to tape, ...

Daniel Levitin professor, psychology, neuroscience, McGill University Daniel J. Levitin, is the James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University; Director of the Laboratory ...

“For some of us, that’s an inspiring message. For others of us, it just draws in stark relief how far we are from achieving that.” DANIEL LEVITIN, a professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience ...