Wednesday, June 23, 2021

This Is Your Brain on Music - The Science of a Human Obsesssion

by Daniel J. Levitin (1957) - neuroscientist and psychologist from San Francisco, studied music at Berklee, worked in music business, and later got a PhD maybe in something in psychology

© 2006

Chapter 1 - What Is Music? - From Pitch to Timbre

page 23

The piccolo hits the highest notes compared to a violin.

page 26

He pretty much has together what you're supposed to know to know music, minus details etc.  It goes through things I learned through a lifelong love of music since childhood and entering adulthood.

page 41

Apparently, I've found, some people just play and others submit to the meaning behind and interaction about classical etc. music.

page 42

He goes into some science and things included in synesthesia, which is things like how music and art are related.

page 51

Apparently, people see the music like an extension of the self rather than pleasure in a science or social science.

Chapter 2 - Foot Tapping - Discerning Rhythm, Loudness, and Harmony

page 55

I've noticed people from Europe are more efficient and physically coordinated and able.

Chapter 3 - Behind the Curtain - Music and Mind Machine

page 82

Apparently, psychologists or scientists of some sort identify music as something that causes a reaction in the brain or maybe the nerves, connected to or in the brain.

page 85

I don't find too much interest in kinesthesia, which is like synesthesia except more about psychology.  I understand emotions without digging into the brain.  It does sound fun, though.

page 89

People find joy in the familiar, even familiar classical music.

page 95

He is "less interested" he says in the brain/mind.

Social Chemistry - Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection

by Marissa King (a blonde business woman who went to the Ivy League school in the USA Yale?)
© 2021

Chapter 2 - The Nature of Networks

page 37

Social media has not changed much in social networking.

page 38

Some people have more Facebook friends, and some people have more real life friends.

page 39

Some people have closer interactions with some, while others are more broad.

page 41

I did notice that non-White Americans seem closer to other people than White Americans.

page 42

Facebook friends are not real friends, often.

page 43

People may have strong relationships with some, but sometimes the ones that are maybe less popular give them the most opportunity.

page 44

It is unpredictable when a weak relationship will be your next "big break."

page 53

For me, I had a few "real" relationships as a kid, age 9, 10, and 11.  I've had other relationships, too, but, later on, "the glass was half empty."

page 58

Moving somewhere or getting a new job change our relationships...

page 60

People do clearly face social anxiety.

page 63

Relationships easily fade, like when moving away like when a kid, even on the verge of the rise of social media.