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CBC | Why studying music and the brain is so fascinating, and so difficult
New research is shedding light on how the brain interacts with music. It also highlights how challenging it is to study the issue effectively due to the highly personalized nature of how we interpret it. "Music is very subjective," says Dr. Daniel Levitin, a professor of neuroscience and music at McGill University in Montreal and author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain on Music. "People have their own preferences and their own experience and to some extent baggage that they bring to all of this — it is challenging."
