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Musical illusions and phantom words : how music and speech unlock mysteries of the brain
- Title
- Musical illusions and phantom words : how music and speech unlock mysteries of the brain / Diana Deutsch.
- Author
- Deutsch, Diana
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- xviii, 243 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm
- Summary
- In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech-many of which she herself discovered-have fundamentally altered thinking about the brain. These astonishing illusions show that people can differ strikingly in how they hear musical patterns-differences that reflect variations in brain organization as well as influences of language on music perception. Drawing on a wide variety of fields, including psychology, music theory, linguistics, and neuroscience, Deutsch examines questions such as: When an orchestra performs a symphony, what is the "real" music? Is it in the mind of the composer, or the conductor, or different members of the audience? Deutsch also explores extremes of musical ability, and other surprising responses to music and speech. Why is perfect pitch so rare? Why do some people hallucinate music or speech? Why do we hear phantom words and phrases? Why are we subject to stuck tunes, or "earworms"? Why do we hear a spoken phrase as sung just because it is presented repeatedly? In evaluating these questions, she also shows how music and speech are intertwined, and argues that they stem from an early form of communication that had elements of both. Many of the illusions described in the book are so striking and paradoxical that you need to hear them to believe them. The book enables you to listen to the sounds that are described while reading about them.--Book jacket.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Music, speech, and handedness : How being left-handed or right-handed can make a difference -- Some musical illusions are discovered -- The perceptual organization of streams of sound -- Strange loops and circular tones -- The tritone paradox : an influence of speech on how music is perceived -- The mystery of absolute pitch : a rare ability that involves both nature and nurture -- Phantom words : how our knowledge, beliefs and expectations create illusions of speech -- Catchy music and earworms -- Hallucinations of music and speech -- The speech-to-song illusion : crossing the borderline between speech and song -- Speech and music intertwined : clues to their origins -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JME 19-315
- ISBN
- 9780190206833
- 0190206837
- LCCN
- 2018051786
- OCLC
- 1089276696
- Author
- Deutsch, Diana, author.
- Title
- Musical illusions and phantom words : how music and speech unlock mysteries of the brain / Diana Deutsch.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JME 19-315