Musical Illusions and Phantom Words: How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain
- Author: Deutsch, Diana
This book covers a wide swath of mate-rial, and it holds together well. The specificity of the early chapters feed into the large concepts of the later chapters. Deutsch has succeeded in creating... — More…
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Contents
- List of Modules (QR codes)
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Music, Speech, and Handedness
- Chapter 2: Some Musical Illusions are Discovered
- Chapter 3: The Perceptual Organization of Streams of Sound
- Chapter 4: Strange Loops and Circular Tones
- Chapter 5: The Tritone Paradox: An Influence of Speech on How Music is Perceived
- Chapter 6: The Mystery of Absolute Pitch: A Rare Ability That Involves both Nature and Nurture
- Chapter 7: Phantom Words: Our Knowledge, Beliefs and Expectations Create Illusions of Speech
- Chapter 8: Catchy Music and Earworms
- Chapter 9: Hallucinations of Music and Speech
- Chapter 10: The Speech-To-Song Illusion: Crossing the Borderline between Speech and Song
- Chapter 11: Speech and Music Intertwined: Clues to Their Origins
- Notes
- References
- Index