Exploring Music’s Hold on the Mind // A Conversation with Aniruddh D. Patel

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By Claudia Dreyfus

Three years ago, when Oxford University Press published “Music, Language, and the Brain,” Oliver Sacks described it as “a major synthesis that will be indispensable to neuroscientists.” The author of that volume, Aniruddh D. Patel, a 44-year-old senior fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, was in New York City in May. We spoke over coffee for more than an hour and later by telephone. An edited and condensed version of the conversations follows.

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Also of interest:

• The first ever New Creation blog post, citing an article on music therapy.
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - Oliver Sacks, book review.
• NOVA: Musical Minds, a PBS broadcast with Oliver Sacks.