

And by that, I mean specific regions of the brain dedicated to processing music and nothing else. We know that the brain is musical because there are specific neural circuits. He told EarthSky: Photo credit: Libertinus He said that music causes the release of neurochemicals in our brains.


Levitin said that music activates neurons in more regions of the brain than almost anything else scientists know of. Daniel Levitin is the author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs, and professor of psychology and music at McGill University of Montreal.
