Really cool anecdotes and not terribly technical. I would have expected a little diagram of the brain in the beginning of the book so I could have looked up what parts were happening where, but there wasn't. There was also remarkably little about why these things were happening but I suppose science...
Probably my favourite of the many Oliver Sacks' books I've read throughout the years. Sacks is always fascinating, but in this book he is even more passionate and more personal than usual and as a result my usual Sacks afterglow (for some reason his books always leave me ridiculously happy and hopef...
That is why I would give this a four to four and a half stars, not five. Still, it is a very interesting areas to read and study. Book on music. Not about music itself but on how human experience music. As usual, this is a good read. A woman who was a musician all her life is losing this power i...
Look, [a:Sacks|843200|Oliver Sacks|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1222681187p2/843200.jpg] is a great writer with a huge pool of research and interesting anecdotes to impart.My problem is that I don't understand what the consequence of these anecdotes is, beyond my own amusement. For t...
Very interesting anecdotes and well written stories. The book unfortunately lacks a scientific gravity because there is no meaning or context given to the anecdotes. Feels more like a collection of random memories than a well structured book on music and the brain.
A bundle of case studies, well-written and readable for both the fan of music and the scientist.What is it that makes us love music so much? Is music a 100% cultural thing or is it something more primal? This book doesn't quite give answers to this, but at the same time it gives you food for thought...
This will certainly be of interest to anyone who loves music, the mysteries of the mind and the human condition in general. Inside the book one will find topics ranging from synesthesia to musical hallucinations, and beyond. It is a wonderful manifestation of Oliver Sacks' love for science and also ...
"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!" -Albus Dumbledore.A veces, cuando leo a Oliver Sacks, se me antoja haber estudiado neurología o irme al campo de neuropsicología clínica. Tener casos raros, estudiarlos así de cerca y no mediante libros de neurólogos con buen sentido del humor.
Perhaps my favorite Sacks so far, because of the sustained focus on one topic but from a variety of perspectives. (I note that the first Sacks I ever read was Migraine, another single-topic book.) The first several chapters used case studies only as illustration for broader neurological points. I fo...
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