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[Review] Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Oliver Sacks) Summarized.

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Oliver Sacks) - Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000XE3XLG?tag=9natree-20 - Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Musicophilia%3A-Tales-of-Music-and-the-Brain-Oliver-Sacks.html - Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/musicophilia-tales-of-music-and-the-brain-unabridged/id1417548649?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree - eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Musicophilia+Tales+of+Music+and+the+Brain+Oliver+Sacks+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 - Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/B000XE3XLG/ #musicalmemoryandamnesia #amusiaandmusicalperception #musictherapyinneurologicaldisorders #musicalhallucinations #rhythmandmotorcontrol #Musicophilia Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain is a work of popular neuroscience by neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. Published in 2007, it examines the relationship between music and the human brain through clinical case histories, personal observations, scientific findings, and reflections on musical experience. Rather than presenting a single theory of music, Sacks builds a wide ranging portrait of how music can appear as pleasure, compulsion, disability, therapy, memory, hallucination, and identity. The book considers people with unusual musical capacities, neurological injuries, amnesia, Parkinson disease, dementia, amusia, synesthesia, and musical hallucinations. Its purpose is to show that music is not merely entertainment or cultural ornament. It is deeply embedded in perception, movement, emotion, memory, and social life. Sacks writes for general readers, musicians, clinicians, and anyone interested in how brain function becomes visible through unusual human experience.

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