Research

Books About Music Research

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
By Daniel J. Levitin
Penguin Group (USA), 2008

Musicophilia Tales of Music and the Brain
By Oliver Sacks
Alfred A. Knopft, 2007

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession
By Daniel J. Levitin
Penguin Group (USA), 2006

A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Kids Listen and Learn
By Peter Perret
The Dana Press, 2004

Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
By Isabelle Peretz
Oxford University Press, 2003

Keeping Mozart in Mind
By Gordon L. Shaw
IAcademic Press, 2000

Good Music Brighter Children
By Sharlene Habermeyer
Prima Publishing, 1999

Musical Beginnings Origins and Development of Musical Competence
By Irene Deliege and John Sloboda
Oxford University Press, 1996

Handbook of Music Psychology
By Donald A. Hodges
IMR Press, 1996

The Tao of Music: Sound Psychology
By John M. Ortiz
Weiser Books (October 1997)
 

Psychology of Music
By Carl E. Seashore
Dover Publications, 1967 

Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (Bradford Books)
By David Huron
The MIT Press; 1 edition (May 1, 2006)
 
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
By Steven Mithen
Harvard University Press (March 31, 2006)
 
Music, The Brain, And Ecstacy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
By Robert Jourdain
Harper Perennial (March 1, 1998) 
 
Music and Memory: An Introduction
By Bob Snyder
The MIT Press (January 8, 2001) 
 
Rhythm, Music, and the Brain: Scientific Foundation and Clinical Applications (Studies on New Music Research)
By Michael Thaut
Routledge; 1 edition (June 11, 2005)