Musicophilia Summary: Oliver Sacks Explores Music’s Impact on the Brain

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* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.

By reading this summary, you will discover the importance of music in your life, whether you are a music lover, a musician, or not.

You will also discover that :

music affects several areas of the brain in both hemispheres, while speech, for example, is located in two areas of your left hemisphere;
thinking music activates the cerebral cortex almost as much as hearing it;
musical memory is one of the brain’s most extensive and resilient networks;
music therapy targets an immersed part of the psyche where memory, emotion and identity are intertwined;
some humans do not have the neurological faculties to grasp the tonalities or harmonies of music.
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