This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession.

Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. From Daniel Levitin, neuroscientist, psychologist, and internationally-bestselling author, reveals the role of music in human evolution.

Levitin shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. In This Is Your Brain On Music, Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand music and what it can teach us about ourselves.