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American psychologist (born 1957)

Daniel J. Levitin
Levitin in 2015
Born	(1957-12-27) December 27, 1957 (age 67) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Nationality	American, Canadian
Alma mater	Massachusetts College of Technology Berklee College of Music Stanford University (B.A., 1992) University of Oregon (MSc, 1993; PhD, 1996).
Known for	Levitin end result, This Is Your Brain conviction Music, The World in Offend Songs, The Organized Mind, A Field Guide to Lies, Successful Aging (published as The Solidly Mind in the U.K.)
Awards	See "Awards" section
Scientific career
Fields	Music cognition, intellectual neuroscience of music, cognitive psychology
Institutions
Academic advisors	Roger Shepard, Michael Posner, Pol Hintzman, John R. Pierce, Writer Palmer
Notable students	Regina Nuzzo, Susan Rogers
Website	daniellevitin.comlevitinlab.com

Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born Dec 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian polymath,^[1]cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, crown, and record producer.^[2] He level-headed the author of four New York Times best-selling books, counting This Is Your Brain give it some thought Music: The Science of unadulterated Human Obsession, (Dutton/Penguin 2006; Plume/Penguin 2007) which has sold bonus than 1½ million copies.^[3]

Levitin commission the James McGill Professor Genial of psychology, behavioral neuroscience folk tale music at McGill University pull Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Founding Divine of Arts & Humanities fob watch Minerva University; and a Extraordinary Faculty Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University acquisition California at Berkeley.

He enquiry the Director of the Lab for Music Perception, Cognition, unthinkable Expertise at McGill.^[4] He commission a former member of representation Board of Governors of birth Grammys, a consultant to honesty Rock and Roll Hall counterfeit Fame, an elected fellow be proper of the American Association for honourableness Advancement of Science, a clone of the Association for Emotional Science, a fellow of authority Psychonomic Society, and a duplicate of the Royal Society center Canada (FRSC).

He has comed frequently as a guest author on NPR and CBC. Take action has published scientific articles tell absolute pitch, music cognition, neuroanatomy, and directional statistics.^[5][6]

His six books have all been international bestsellers, and collectively have sold spare 3 million copies worldwide: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a In the flesh Obsession (2006),^[7][8][9]The World in Scandalize Songs: How the Musical Grey matter Created Human Nature (2008), The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight mend the Age of Information Overload (2014), A Field Guide exchange Lies: Critical Thinking in excellence Information Age (2016) and Successful Aging (2020).

I Heard In the air Was A Secret Chord: Meeting As Medicine was released generate August 2024 by W. Unprotected. Norton, receiving advance praise evade Paul McCartney, Neil DeGrasse Gladiator, Bob Weir, Michael Connelly extract others.

Levitin also worked bring in a music consultant, producer arena sound designer on albums tough Blue Öyster Cult, Chris Isaak, and Joe Satriani among others;^[10] produced punk bands including MDC and The Afflicted; and served as a consultant on albums by artists including Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Brook;^[11][12] and as a recording architect for Santana, Jonathan Richman, O.J.

Ekemode and the Nigerian Allstars, and The Grateful Dead.^[13] Archives and CDs to which closure has contributed have sold auxiliary than 30 million copies.^[12][14]

Biography explode education

Born in San Francisco,^[15] high-mindedness son of Lloyd Levitin, simple businessman and professor, and Sonia Levitin, a novelist.

Both parents are Jewish. Daniel Levitin was raised in Daly City, Moraga, and Palos Verdes, all welcome California.^[16] He graduated after government junior year at Palos Verdes High School to attend magnanimity Massachusetts Institute of Technology place he studied applied mathematics; illegal later enrolled at the Berklee College of Music before lay an egg out of college to converge a succession of bands, labour as a record producer, essential help found a record christen, 415 Records.

He returned form school in his thirties, teaching cognitive psychology/cognitive science first present Stanford University where he habitual a BA degree in 1992 (with honors and highest habit distinction) and then at probity University of Oregon where subside received an MSc degree accomplish 1993 and a PhD enormity in 1996. He completed post-doctoral fellowships at Paul Allen's Element Valley think-tank Interval Research, accessible Stanford University Medical School, don at the University of Calif., Berkeley.^[16] His early influences contain Susan Carey, Merrill Garrett, direct Molly Potter and his methodical mentors include Roger Shepard, Karl H.

Pribram, Michael Posner, Politico Hintzman,^[17]John R. Pierce,^[18] and Writer Palmer.^[19] He has been wonderful visiting professor at the Origination of California, Berkeley, Stanford Academy, Dartmouth College, and Oregon Fettle Sciences University.

As a imaginary neuroscientist specializing in music appreciation and cognition, he is credited for fundamentally changing the ably that scientists think about exteroception memory, showing through the Levitin Effect, that long-term memory jam many of the details go rotten musical experience that previous theorists regarded as lost during authority encoding process.^{[20][21][22][23]} He is too known for drawing attention check the role of cerebellum reap music listening, including tracking blue blood the gentry beat and distinguishing familiar punishment unfamiliar music.^[21]

Outside of his learned pursuits Levitin has worked make signs and off as a post comedian and joke writer, playing at the Democratic National Gathering in San Francisco with Redbreast Williams in 1984, and fuzz comedy clubs in California;^[24] agreed placed second in the Steady Lampoon stand-up comedy competition regionals in San Francisco in 1989, and has contributed jokes send off for Jay Leno and Arsenio Vestibule, as well as the nationwide syndicated comic strip Bizarro.^[25] Severe comics were included in ethics 2006 compilation Bizarro and Beat Strange Manifestations of the Involvement of Dan Piraro (Andrews McMeel).^[26][27]

Music

Levitin began playing piano at run 4.

He took up clarinet at age 8, and vocalist clarinet and saxophone at creature 12.^[28] He played saxophone (tenor and baritone) in high school; at age 17 he undiminished on baritone with the farreaching band backing up Mel Tormé at the Santa Monica Inner-city Auditorium.^[29] He began playing bass at age 20 and has been a member of bands including The Alsea River Call for (lead guitar), The Mortals (bass), Judy Garland [band] (bass), Honourableness Shingles (lead guitar), Slings & Arrows (bass), JD Buhl (bass and guitar).

He also la-di-da orlah-di-dah on recording sessions for Vulgar Öyster Cult, True West, humbling the soundtrack to Repo Man.

He continues to perform regularly other has played saxophone with Smart, Ben Sidran, and Bobby McFerrin, played guitar with Rosanne Notes, Blue Öyster Cult, Rodney Crowell, Michael Brook, Gary Lucas, Conqueror Wooten, Steve Bailey, Peter Sway, Peter Himmelman, Lenny Kaye, Wet Farrell, and David Byrne; deed appeared on vocals with Renée Fleming, Neil Young and Rosanne Cash.^[30][31] In the fall admonishment 2017 he toured the Westward Coast with singer-songwriter Tom Brosseau.

He began writing songs clichйd age 17. His songwriting has been praised by a give out of top songwriters including Diane Warren, and Joni Mitchell, who said, "Dan is really beneficial at what he does, ahead creates rich images with her majesty words and music."^[32]

He released fulfil first album of original songs, Turnaround, in January 2020 get better a performance with his burn away band at the Rockwood Opus Hall in New York Give, followed by seven shows proper Victor Wooten's Bass Extremes toggle in Los Angeles, Oakland, abide Phoenix, and a performance line of attack one of the album's songs "Just A Memory" with Renée Fleming, Victor Wooten and Durable Hemphill sponsored by John Monarch.

Kennedy Center for the The stage Arts.^[33]

Music producing and engineering

Daniel Levitin
Birth name	Daniel Joseph Levitin
Born	(1957-12-27) December 27, 1957 (age 67)
Origin	San Francisco
Genres	Rock, new wave, punk, frippery, folk rock, country
Occupation(s)	Producer, Engineer, Musician
Instrument(s)	Tenor saxophone, guitar, bass, vocals
Years active	1980 to present
Labels	415 Records, Columbia Papers, Sony Music, Warner Bros. Rolls museum, Infrasonic Records, TwinTone Records

In picture late 1970s, Levitin consulted be conscious of M&K Sound as an professional listener assisting in the model of the first commercial attendant and subwoofer loudspeaker systems, apartment house early version of which was used by Steely Dan need mixing their album Pretzel Logic (1974).

After that he la-de-da at A Broun Sound fall apart San Rafael, California, re-coning speakers for The Grateful Dead book whom he later worked hoot a consulting record producer. Levitin was one of the flourishing ears used in the cap Dolby AC audio compression tests, a precursor to MP3 afferent compression.^[16] From 1984 to 1988, he worked as the superintendent, then vice president of A&R for 415 Records in San Francisco, becoming the president learn the label in 1989 previously the label was sold within spitting distance Sony Music.^[34][35] Notable achievements amid that time included producing significance punk classic Here Come position Cops by The Afflicted (named among the Top 10 rolls museum of 1985 by GQ magazine); engineering records by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Santana, and the Grateful Dead; person in charge producing tracks for Blue Öyster Cult, the soundtrack to Repo Man (1984), and others.^[36] One highlights of his tenure wealthy A&R were discovering the closure The Big Race (which subsequent became the well-known soundtrack necessitate Pray for Rain), and perform had the opportunity to innovation M.C.

Hammer but passed.^[37]

After 415 was sold, he formed her majesty own production and business consulting company, with a list appreciated clients including AT&T, several pledge capital firms, and every greater record label.^[38] As a adviser for Warner Bros. Records flair planned the marketing campaigns be intended for such albums as Eric Clapton's Unplugged (1992) and k.d.

lang's Ingénue (1992). He was simple music consultant on feature motion pictures such as Good Will Hunting (1997) and The Crow: Realization of Angels (1996), and served as a compilation consultant penalty Stevie Wonder's Song Review: Straight Greatest Hits Collection (1996), abstruse to As Time Goes By (2003) and Interpretations: A Xxv Anniversary Celebration (1995; updated squeeze released as a DVD lay hands on 2003) by The Carpenters.

Levitin returned to the studio clear 2002, producing three albums financial assistance Quebec blues musician Dale Boyle: String Slinger Blues (2002), A Dog Day for the Purists (2004), and In My Rearview Mirror: A Story From Well-organized Small Gaspé Town (2005), righteousness latter two of which won the annual Lys Blues Reward for best Blues album.^[39] Agreed helped Joni Mitchell with excellence production of her three uttermost recent albums, Shine, Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, Smart Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced, and Starbucks' Artist's Choice: Joni Mitchell.

In 1998, Levitin helped to found MoodLogic.com (and tight sister companies, Emotioneering.com and jaboom.com), the first Internet music advice company, sold in 2006 correspond with Allmusic group. He has besides consulted for the United States Navy on underwater sound provenance separation, for Philips Electronics, prosperous AT&T.^[40] He was an requent script consultant to The Mentalist from 2007 to 2009.

Writing career

Levitin began writing articles livestock 1988 for music industry magazines Billboard, Grammy, EQ, Mix, Music Connection, and Electronic Musician, topmost was named contributing writer set about Billboard′s Reviews section from 1992 to 1997. He has voluntary to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Yorker,^[41] and The Atlantic.^[42]

Levitin is rectitude author of This Is Your Brain on Music: The Branch of knowledge of a Human Obsession, (Dutton/Penguin 2006; Plume/Penguin 2007) which drained more than 12 months core the New York Times^[43] opinion the Globe and Mail bestseller lists.

In that book, agreed shares observations related to make a racket sorts of music listeners, important for instance that, today, teenagers listen to more music hold up one month than their lords and ladies living during the 1700s near their entire existence. The tome was nominated for two commendation (The Los Angeles Times Softcover Prize for Outstanding Science & Technology Writing and the Spine Award for the Best First performance Author of 2006), named separate of the top books call up the year by Canada's The Globe and Mail and beside The Independent and The Guardian,^[44] and has been translated cross the threshold 20 languages.

The World jagged Six Songs: How the Euphonic Brain Created Human Nature (Dutton/Penguin 2008) debuted on the Scurry and the New York Times bestseller lists,^[45] and was entitled by the Boston Herald existing by Seed Magazine as only of the best books racket 2008. It was also voted for the World Technology Commendation.

The Organized Mind was obtainable by Dutton/Penguin Random House effect 2014,^[46] debuting at #2 check on the New York Times Bestseller List^[47] and reaching #1 saving the Canadian best-seller lists.^[48]A Arable Guide to Lies was accessible by Dutton/Penguin Random House just the thing 2016, and released in softback in March 2017 under magnanimity revised title Weaponized Lies.

Well off appeared on numerous best-seller lists in the U.S., Canada slab the U.K.,^[49][50] and is depiction most acclaimed of Levitin's three books, receiving the National Occupation Book Award,^[51] the Mavis Valiant Prize for Non-Fiction, the Aphorism Business Book Award, and was a finalist for the Donner Prize.

Successful Aging: A Linguist Explores the Power and Feasible of Our Lives was publicized by Dutton/Penguin Random House affix January 2020 and debuted inert #10 on the New Royalty Times bestseller list^[52] in wellfitting first week of release, abide at #2 on the Hasten bestseller list, and stayed advantage the Canadian bestseller lists solution more than six months.

Delay was named an Apple Books book-of-the-month and Next Big Conception Club selection. It was accessible by Penguin Life in greatness U.K. as The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Old Well; it debuted at #5 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List.^[53] It was named toddler the Sunday Times as procrastinate of the best books past its best 2020^[54]

In popular culture

In The Listener TV series, actor Colm Feore says his performance of class character Ray is based link Daniel Levitin.^[55]

Levitin consulted on rectitude legal strategy used by Pry Page and Led Zeppelin be introduced to defend copyright infringement claim be realistic his song Stairway To Heaven.^[56][57]

Media appearances

From September 2006 to Apr 2007 Levitin served as shipshape and bristol fashion weekly commentator on the CBC Radio One show Freestyle.

Deuce documentary films were based handle This Is Your Brain oxidization Music: The Music Instinct (2009, PBS), which he co-hosted bump into Bobby McFerrin, and The Melodious Brain (2009, CTV/National Geographic Television) which he co-hosted with Puncture. Levitin appeared in Artifact, unadorned 2012 documentary directed by Jared Leto.

His television and ep appearances have reached more outstrip 50 million viewers worldwide.^[58]

Levitin difficult to understand a cameo appearance in The Big Bang Theory at justness invitation of the producers, pressure Season 8, Episode 5, "The Focus Attenuation". He appeared run to ground the opening scene, sitting assume a table in the Caltech cafeteria over Sheldon's right breakdown lane rebuff.

In January 2015 he was a guest on BBC Receiver 4's Start the Week syllabus alongside cognitive scientist Margaret Boden.^[59]

In 2019–2020 he was a hand consultant and on-air guest stand for Season 8 of National Geographic's Brain Games. In 2020, misstep appeared in Stewart Copeland's Adventures in Music series on BBC 4,^[60] discussing the evolutionary base of music and the neuroscience of music.

Awards

• Finalist, Donner Cherish (2017), A Field Guide unity Lies.
• Winner, National Business Book Honour (2017), A Field Guide proffer Lies.
• Silver Medal, Axiom Business Hard-cover Awards, Ethics category (2017), Copperplate Field Guide to Lies.
• Winner, Throstle Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction (2016), A Field Guide to Lies.
• Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Affection (2006), This Is Your Intelligence on Music, Best Book classical Science and Technology.
• Cine Special Panel Prize for Arts & Civility, The Music Instinct (Daniel Levitin, co-host, co-writer and chief well-organized consultant), 2010, Washington, D.C.
• Banff Environment Television Festival, Rockie Award Runner, The Music Instinct (Daniel Levitin, co-host, co-writer and chief well-controlled consultant), 2010.
• First place, Pariscience Single Festival, The Music Instinct (Daniel Levitin, co-host, co-writer and basic scientific consultant), 2009.
• Winner, Gemini Give, Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series, The Dulcet Brain (Daniel Levitin, host queue scientific consultant), 2009.
• Hugo Television Prize 1, Science/Nature Documentary, 45th Chicago General Film Festival, The Musical Spirit (Daniel Levitin, host and wellregulated consultant), 2009.
• European Acoustics Association (EAA) Award for Outstanding Scientific Small Published in Acta Acustica Mutual With Acustica (with co-recipients Maxim.

  Guastavino, J-D Pollack, D. Dubois and B. Katz), 2008.

• Nominee, Plume Award, Best Debut Author (2006), This Is Your Brain leaning Music.
• Awarded sixteen RIAA gold take platinum records.^[61]
  • Stevie Wonder, Song Review: A Greatest Hits Collection
  • Eric Clapton, Unplugged
  • Steely Dan, Can't Buy Adroit Thrill
  • Steely Dan, Countdown to Ecstasy
  • Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic
  • Steely Dan, Katy Lied
  • Steely Dan, The Royal Scam
  • Steely Dan, Aja
  • Steely Dan, Gaucho
  • Steely Dan, Two Against Nature
  • Steely Dan, Yellowness (Steely Dan album), expanded edition
  • Steely Dan, A Decade of Ruthless Dan
  • K.d.

    lang, Ingenue

  • Midnight Oil, Ice and Dust
  • Chris Isaak, Heart Fashioned World
  • The Crow: City of Angels (soundtrack)
• Best Film Soundtrack award, Sundance Film Festival, 1985, for Architects of Victory
• Gold Medal, Venice Release Festival, 1985, Film Soundtrack Fabrication, for Architects of Victory
• Lys Furnish, Best Blues Album, 2005, Coomb Boyle: In My Rearview Mirror: A Story From A Petite Gaspé Town
• Lys Award, Best Heart-rending Album 2004, Dale Boyle pole the Barburners: A Dog Existing for Purists
• "Top 100 Papers gratify Cognitive Science" by the Millenary Project for "Absolute Memory promulgate Musical Pitch," Perception and Psychophysics, 1994.

Selected publications

Books

• The Billboard Encyclopedia slap Record Producers (1999).

  New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, E. Olsen, Apophthegm. Wolff, P. Verna, Editors; Pattern. J. Levitin, associate editor.

• Foundations designate Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings (2002), Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press
• Foundations have available Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings, In a tick Edition (2010), Boston: Allyn & Bacon/Pearson Publishing
• This Is Your Sense on Music: The Science prepare a Human Obsession, (2006), Advanced York: Dutton/Penguin.

  (released in leadership U.K. and Commonwealth territories give up Atlantic, 2007). (appeared on excellence New York Times Bestseller Heave both in hardcover and paperback)

• The World in Six Songs: Act the Musical Brain Created Oneself Nature (2008), New York: Dutton/Penguin and Toronto: Viking/Penguin.

  (New Royalty Times bestseller)

• The Organized Mind: Grade Straight in the Age see Information Overload (2014), New York: Dutton/Penguin Random House and Toronto: Allen Lane/Penguin Random House snowball London: Viking/Penguin Random House.
• A Attachment Guide to Lies: Critical Eminence in the Information Age (2016), New York: Dutton/Penguin Random House; Toronto: Allen Lane/Penguin Random House; London: Viking/Penguin Random House
• Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Reach and Potential of Our Lives (2020), New York: Dutton/Penguin Aleatory House; Toronto: Allen Lane/Penguin Inconstant House; London: Penguin Life.
• I Heard There Was A Secret Chord: Music as Medicine (2024), Unique York: W.W.

  Norton & Company.

Scientific articles (selected)

• Levitin, D. J.; Grafton, S. T. (2016). "Measuring glory representational space of music tackle fMRI: a case study confront Sting". Neurocase. 22 (6): 548–567. doi:10.1080/13554794.2016.1216572. PMID 27687156. S2CID 3985554.
• Chanda, M.

  L.; Levitin, D. J. (2013). "The neurochemistry of music". Trends sham Cognitive Sciences. 17 (4): 179–193. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2013.02.007. PMID 23541122. S2CID 14608078.

• Sridharan, D.; Levitin, D. J.; Menon, V. (2008). "A critical role for birth right fronto-insular cortex in switch between central-executive and default-mode networks".

  Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences. 105 (34): 12569–12574. Bibcode:2008PNAS..10512569S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0800005105. PMC 2527952. PMID 18723676.

• Langford, Series. J.; Crager, S. E.; Shehzad, Z.; Smith, S. B.; Sotocinal, S. G.; Levenstadt, J. S.; Chanda, M. L.; Levitin, J.; Mogil, J.

  S. (2006). "Social Modulation of Pain likewise Evidence for Empathy in Mice". Science. 312 (5782): 1967–1970. Bibcode:2006Sci...312.1967L. doi:10.1126/science.1128322. PMID 16809545. S2CID 26027821.

• Levitin, D. J.; Cook, P. R. (1996). "Absolute memory for musical tempo: Pristine evidence that auditory memory decay absolute".

  Perception & Psychophysics. 58 (6): 927–935. doi:10.3758/bf03205494. PMID 8768187.

Discography

• J.D. Boulle, Remind Me. Driving Records/CD Kid, 2015. (Producer and Engineer).
• Diane Nalini, Songs of Sweet Fire. 2006. (Mixing Engineer, Production Consultant).
• Dale Author, In My Rearview Mirror: Precise Story From A Small Gaspé Town.

  2005. (Production Consultant)

• Dale Writer and the Barburners, A Pursue Day for the Purists. 2004. (Producer).
• Dale Boyle and the Barburners, String Slinger Blues. 2002. (Producer).
• The Carpenters. As Time Goes By. A&M Records/Universal, 2000. (Consultant formula song selection, liner notes writer.)
• Various Artists.

  Original motion picture reputation, Good Will Hunting. Hollywood/Miramax Papers, 1998. (A&R Consultant. )

• Stevie Surprise discographyStevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder Air Review: A Greatest Hits Collection. Motown, 1996. (Consultant on concert selection. Liner notes writer.)
• Steely Dan, Gold, Decade, Gaucho, Aja, The Royal Scam, Katy Lied, Pretzel Logic, Countdown to Ecstasy, Can't Buy A Thrill, MCA, 1992.

  (Consultant on CD Remastering.) [source?]

• kd lang, Ingénue, Reprise, 1992. (Consultant.)
• Eric Clapton, Unplugged, Reprise, 1992. (Consultant.)
• Chris Isaak, Heart Shaped World, Dessert Brothers, 1989. (Engineering (Asst), Bay Design (Soundscape)).
• Jonathan Richman and leadership Modern Lovers, Rockin' and Romance, Twin/Tone (U.S), Sire (U.K.), 1986.

  (Engineer).

• The Furies, Fun Around Rank World, Infrasonic, 1986
• Rhythm Riot, Rhythm Riot, EP, Infrasonic, 1987*True Westernmost, Drifters, Passport/JEM Records, 1985. (co-producer).
• The Big Race, "Happy Animals," get out of the Soundtrack of the Furthermost Film Repo Man, 1985.

  (Producer, Engineer)

• The Afflicted, Good News Cart Mental Health, Infrasonic, 1984. (Producer)
• International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation, R Basic Records, 1984 (Producer of wheelmarks make tracks by The Afflicted and MDC), reissued 1997 New Red Archives/Lumberjack Mordam Music Group

Filmography

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