Alucinações musicais – Relatos sobre a música e o cérebro

Alucinações musicais – Relatos sobre a música e o cérebro
Authors
Sacks, Oliver
Publisher
Companhia das Letras
Tags
music , science , psychology
ISBN
9788535910919
Date
2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.53 MB
Lang
pt
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With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks’ latest masterpiece.