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What is the secret of music's strange power? Seeking an answer, scientists are piecing together a picture of what happens in the brains of listeners and musicians
| October 25, 2004
Image: JOHN STEWART
Music surrounds us¿and we wouldn't have it any other way.
An exhilarating orchestral crescendo can bring tears to our eyes and send shivers down our spines. Background swells add emotive punch to movies and TV shows. Organists at ballgames bring us together, cheering, to our feet. Parents croon soothingly to infants.
Music and Emotion: Theory and Research. Edited by Patrik N. Juslin and John A. Sloboda. Oxford University Press, 2001.
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music. Edited by Isabelle Peretz and Robert J. Zatorre. Oxford University Press, 2003.
The Origins of Music. Edited by Nils L. Wallin, Bj¿rn Merker and Steven Brown. MIT Press, 1999.
The Psychology of Music. Second edition. Edited by Diana Deutsch. Academic Press, 1999.
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