Daniel J. Levitin

We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process, especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them. "A primer to the critical thinking that is now more necessary than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than the...

Explores the relationship between the mind and music by drawing on recent findings in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to discuss such topics as the sources of musical tastes and the brain's responses to music.

Daniel J. Levitin, Ph. D., uses the latest brain science to demostrate how people with "organized" minds excel--and how readers canuse their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and lives.

Explains how various types of music affect the brain emotionally and physically and features a discussion with Dr. Levitin on his book, "This is Your Brain on Music, " which discusses how technology can be used to see the affects of music on the human brain.