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The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Able Add Always Brain Cases Chaos Experiencing Explain Fantastic Just Left Makes Making Often Order Out Responsible Sense Some Stories Things Up World

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Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Asking Brain Candidates Instead Maybe Political Really Returns See Should Submit Tax

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Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Brain Emotional Experience How Illusion Just Leads Music Mystery Order Our Part Reactions Sequence Sounds Structure Thought Type Us Which

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Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Did Evolution Fly Fun How Just Know Look Things

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We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Best Came Evolution Happen Up

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The state-of-the-art techniques really allowed us to make maps of how Sting's brain organizes music. That's important because at the heart of great musicianship is the ability to manipulate in one's mind rich representation of the desired soundscape.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Ability Allowed Because Brain Desired Great Heart How Important Make Manipulate Maps Mind Music Musicianship Really Representation Rich Sting Techniques Us

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I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Became Brain Categorize Categorized Chaotic Different Different Ways Disorganized Equally Graduate Graduate School How Interested Many School Seem So Many Different Ways Sometimes Structure Things Valid Ways Which Why World

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I believe in an informed electorate, and we need to teach our children to become informed enough to have opinions on world issues or, at least, to understand what the major issues are and who the players are.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Become Believe Children Electorate Enough Informed Issues Least Major Need Opinions Our Players Teach Understand Who World I Believe I Believe In

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Many people say some of their best ideas come from dreams. Arguably the greatest Beatles song, 'Yesterday,' came to Paul McCartney in a dream.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Arguably Beatles Best Came Come Dream Dreams Greatest Ideas Many Mccartney Paul People People Say Say Some Song Yesterday

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Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Abstract Across Been Before Enhance Formation Having Inference Involving Just Language Logic Mathematics Much Night Often People Problem Problems Range Reasoning Relations Shown Sleep Solved Spatial Understanding Wake

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: December 27th, 1957

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