From Perception to Pleasure
The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 February 2024
- ISBN 9780197558287
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages364 pages
- Size 246x188x33 mm
- Weight 953 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 92 color illustrations 489
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Short description:
In From Perception to Pleasure, Robert Zatorre discusses why we love music and what enables us to create it, perceive it, and enjoy it from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, explaining how we get from perception of sound patterns to pleasurable responses. Zatorre's richly illustrated book provides an integrative model for a large body of scientific knowledge that explains how patterns of abstract sounds can generate profoundly moving hedonic experiences.
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Why do we love music? What enables us to create it, perceive it, and enjoy it? In From Perception to Pleasure, Robert Zatorre provides answers to these questions from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, explaining how we get from perception of sound patterns to pleasurable responses. The book is organized around a central thesis: that pleasure in music arises from interactions between cortical loops that enable processing of sound patterns, and subcortical circuits responsible for reward and valuation. This model integrates knowledge derived from basic neuroscience of the auditory system and of reward mechanisms with the concept that perception and pleasure depend on mechanisms of prediction, anticipation, and valuation.
The first part of the book describes the pathways to and from the auditory cortex that generate internal representations of musical structure at different levels of abstraction, which then interact with memory, sensory-motor, and other cognitive mechanisms that are essential to perceive and produce music. The second part of the book focuses on the functional anatomy of the dopaminergic reward system; its involvement in musical pleasure; the links between prediction, surprise, and complexity; and what happens when the system is disrupted.
The book is richly illustrated to help the reader follow the scientific findings. Most of all, From Perception to Pleasure provides an integrative model for a large body of scientific knowledge that explains how patterns of abstract sounds can generate profoundly moving hedonic experiences.
From Perception to Pleasure offers a detailed, concise, and beautifully organized account of Robert Zatorre's groundbreaking work. His research into how music impacts the brain and shapes our emotional lives is revelatory. Zatorre builds a crucial framework for fully integrating creative arts therapies into health and medicine.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Perception
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Early Sound Processing: The Auditory Cortex, Its Inputs, and Functions
Chapter 3: Communicating Between Auditory Regions and the Rest of the Brain: The Ventral Stream
Chapter 4: Communicating Between Auditory Regions and the Rest of the Brain: The Dorsal Stream
Chapter 5: Hemispheric Specialization: Two Brains Are Better Than One
Part II: Pleasure
Chapter 6: The Reward System
Chapter 7: Music Recruits the Reward System
Chapter 8: Why Does Music Engage the Reward System?
Chapter 9: Pleasure and Beyond
Coda: The Miracle of Music
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