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From Perception to Pleasure

The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It

Robert Zatorre (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-755828-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Robert Zatorre was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied music and psychology at Boston University, and obtained his PhD at Brown University, followed by postdoctoral work at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University, where he currently holds a Canada Research Chair. His laboratory studies the neural substrates of auditory cognition, focusing on two characteristically human abilities: speech and music. Together with his many students and collaborators he has published more than 300 scientific papers on topics including pitch perception, musical imagery, music production, brain plasticity, hemispheric specialization, and the role of the reward system in musical pleasure. In 2006 he co-founded the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS). His work has been recognized by numerous international prizes, including the C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science (Amsterdam) and the Grand Prix Scientifique from the Institute for Hearing in Paris. He tries to keep up his baroque repertoire on the organ whenever he gets a chance.

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
References

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	92 color illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	188 x 246 mm
Gewicht	953 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-19-755828-3 / 0197558283
ISBN-13	978-0-19-755828-7 / 9780197558287
Zustand	Neuware