Friday, November 9, 2007

Sing, Sing a Song


Can't get the theme from The Brady Bunch out of your head? Then you're experiencing one of the more benign forms of what author and neurologist Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, calls "musicophilia." His latest book of the same name, recounts the many ways our brains process, use, and even misuse music. Get a taste: NPR has posted two interviews with Sacks and an excerpt from his new book.--David E

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