Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized.

The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.

This authoritative, landmark volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research in music perception and cognition. Eminent scholars from a range of disciplines, employing a variety of methodologies, describe important findings from core areas of the field, including music cognition, the neuroscience of music, musical performance, and music therapy. The book can be used as a textbook for courses in music cognition, auditory perception, science of music, psychology of music, philosophy of music, and music therapy, and as a reference for researchers, teachers, and musicians.

The book's sections cover music perception; music cognition; music, neurobiology, and evolution; musical training, ability, and performance; and musical experience in everyday life. Chapters treat such topics as pitch, rhythm, and timbre; musical expectancy, musicality, musical disorders, and absolute pitch; brain processes involved in music perception, cross-species studies of music cognition, and music across cultures; improvisation, the assessment of musical ability, and singing; and music and emotions, musical preferences, and music therapy.

Contributors
Fleur Bouwer, Peter Cariani, Laura K. Cirelli, Annabel J. Cohen, Lola L. Cuddy, Shannon de L'Etoile, Jessica A. Grahn, David M. Greenberg, Bruno Gingras, Henkjan Honing, Lorna S. Jakobson, Ji Chul Kim, Stefan Koelsch, Edward W. Large, Miriam Lense, Daniel Levitin, Charles J. Limb, Psyche Loui, Stephen McAdams, Lucy M. McGarry, Malinda J. McPherson, Andrew J. Oxenham, Caroline Palmer, Aniruddh Patel, Eve-Marie Quintin, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Edward Roth, Frank A. Russo, Rebecca Scheurich, Kai Siedenburg, Avital Sternin, Yanan Sun, William F. Thompson, Renee Timmers, Mark Jude Tramo, Sandra E. Trehub, Michael W. Weiss, Marcel Zentner

Edição revista e atualizada. Best-seller internacional do autor de A mente organizada. Com exemplos musicais de Mozart a Eminem, passando por Bach, U2 e tantos outros, este livro nos leva a um entendimento científico abrangente sobre o modo como experimentamos a música e seu papel ímpar nas nossas vidas.

*  Eleito pela Billboard um dos 15 livros que todo fã de música deveria ler". 

A música é uma obsessão que está no cerne da natureza humana, e talvez seja mais fundamental para a nossa espécie do que a linguagem. Neste livro fascinante, o neurocientista, psicólogo e autor best-seller Daniel Levitin tenta entender o poder que ela exerce sobre nossa consciência, e estuda sua relação com a atividade cerebral: como o cérebro percebe a música, e o que a música nos ensina sobre o cérebro?
Com base nas mais recentes pesquisas da neurociência e da psicologia, Levitin revela o papel da música na evolução humana, mostra como nossas preferências musicais começam a se formar mesmo antes de nascermos e explica por que a música nos oferece experiências emocionais tão profundas. A música no seu cérebro apresenta um novo olhar sobre a música e o que ela pode nos ensinar sobre nós mesmos.

"Muito estimulante, com uma perspectiva fantástica. Um livro importantíssimo." — Oliver Sacks

"O livro de Levitin é eloquente e poético. É gratificante acompanhar a pesquisa de um autor que é um notável músico, um conceituado cientista e alguém que ainda se encanta ao contemplar o universo." — Sting

La musique comme maître à penser
Dans ce livre passionnant, Levitin tente de comprendre le pouvoir et les répercussions de la musique sur l'activité cérébrale : comment le cerveau perçoit-il la musique ? Qu'est-ce que la musique, en retour, peut nous apprendre du cerveau ? Comme déclencheur d'émotions – lesquelles sont des marqueurs neuronaux–, la musique nous éclaire, par exemple, sur le fonctionnement de la mémoire.
Cet essai pédagogique et plein d'humour aborde des thèmes aussi divers que la classification de la musique par genres, l'oreille absolue ou la mémoire instinctive que l'on peut avoir d'un morceau. De Bach à Ella Fitzgerald, des Beatles, à U2, Levitin révèle le rôle de la musique dans l'évolution de l'humanité.