Daniel Levitin
Neuroscientist, psychologist and musician
Daniel Levitin is a neuroscientist and cognitive psychologist who worked as a record producer and session musician before academia. He wrote This Is Your Brain on Music.
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American Born 1957 in San Francisco, United States
About Daniel Levitin
Daniel Levitin is a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer and musician. He is a professor emeritus at McGill University in Montreal, and he has also been a founding dean at Minerva University in California. Before he became a neuroscientist, he played on sessions, engineered sound and produced records. He contributed to records involving Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. His research has covered absolute pitch and music cognition. His books include This Is Your Brain on Music, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies, and Successful Aging. A Field Guide to Lies was later republished in paperback as Weaponized Lies.