Anna Petruk's Reviews > This Is Your Brain on Music

Two random facts about me:
1) I love music
2) I love cognitive and neuroscience

So I was thrilled about this book.

And it was indeed pretty good. My main takeaway from it is that our enjoyment of music stems from the setting up and violation of expectations and human's innate instinct to seek out patterns in whatever stimuli that comes our way.

I recommend the audiobook version because it provides musical examples of what the author is talking about, so I believe it's much more convenient to comprehend that the written version.

It took a while to finish because every time I started listening to the book about music I got a massive urge to listen to some. So I had to scratch that itch, and that kept me distracted from reading Brain on Music in big chunks.

It took a lot of set-up and some of the things described in this book I already knew, so they weren't as exciting, hence the 4 stars.