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Activities like reading, dancing, socializing, and even playing memory games like chess can help exercise your brain. These ten activities can help boost your brain performance.
An extremely dense, sometimes obtuse, but often insightful and pleasurable journey into how our brains process music. Levitin throws in a heavy dose of music theory and cerebral details about brain functions that are guaranteed to bore, but there are plenty of gems and perspectives that make this a rewarding read. There's a plethora of name-dropping, some of them well-known pop musicians, others obscure scientists, some of the anecdotes interesting and others perhaps a reflection of an egotistical writer, but if you are interested in some theories about how music evolved in human beings, what it might have meant for our survival, what kinds of music give us pleasure and why, then you'll find this a worthy read.