Bill and Wendy are joined on the phone by Dr. Levitin to talk about his new book “A Field Guide to Lies”. How do you determine what is true on the internet? How can we see through lies in politics? Is ...

Levitin (The Organized Mind) equips readers with tools to combat misinformation—bad data, false facts, distortions, and their ilk—in this useful primer on the importance of critical thinking in daily ...

Daniel J. Levitin is James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences at McGill University. He is the author of two best-selling books about music cognition: *This Is Your Brain on Music: The ...

You hear a piece of music and it makes you feel something — euphoric, sad, nostalgic, hopeful, rueful. You almost certainly don’t consider the complex relationship between the eardrum, the brainstem, ...

Our brain is wired to make snap judgments. And those judgments can be very, very wrong. Daniel J. Levitin, a neuroscientist by training and a distinguished faculty fellow at UC Berkeley, said our best ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — Music can uplift and heal. But music is also very subjective. What you like is not necessarily what others ...

In "The Organized Mind," Daniel J. Levitin, a cognitive neuroscientist at McGill University, makes an ambitious attempt to bring research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to bear on the more ...

Charles Darwin meets the Beatles in this attempt to blend neuroscience and evolutionary biology to explain why music is such a powerful force. In this rewarding though often repetitious study by ...

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Think of a song that resonates deep down in your being. Now imagine sitting down with someone who was there when the song was recorded and can tell you how that series of sounds was committed to tape, ...

In an eye opening NPR talk, Harvard professor Ann Blair recently discussed how information overload is certainly not unique to the digital age. This same concern accompanied every invention related to ...