SUMMARY - Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.

*By reading this summary, you will discover the importance of music in your life, whether you are a music lover, a musician, or not.

*You will also discover that : music affects several areas of the brain in both hemispheres, while speech, for example, is located in two areas of your left hemisphere; thinking music activates the cerebral cortex almost as much as hearing it; musical memory is one of the brain's most extensive and resilient networks; music therapy targets an immersed part of the psyche where memory, emotion and identity are intertwined; some humans do not have the neurological faculties to grasp the tonalities or harmonies of music.

*The human species is a musical species. Indeed, every human being listens to or practices a form of music. It has always accompanied all the peoples of the Earth who seem to be unable to live without it. Neuroscientists seek to identify the areas of the brain that process music. They study their role in reception, memorization, feeling and expression. Yet music is not biologically essential to life. Could it be because it occupies many brain regions simultaneously that music seems so indispensable? 

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