“Consonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex.”

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Consonant intervals and dissonant intervals are processed via separate mechanisms in the auditory cortex." by Daniel Levitin?
Daniel Levitin photo
Daniel Levitin 76
American psychologist 1957

Related quotes

François Arago photo

“In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.”

François Arago (1786–1853) French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician

Joseph Fourier, p. 411.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men (1859)

P. D. Ouspensky photo

“There exist moments in life, separated by long intervals of time, but linked together by their inner content and by a certain singular sensation peculiar to them.”

P. D. Ouspensky (1878–1947) Russian esotericist

A New Model of the Universe (1932)
Context: There exist moments in life, separated by long intervals of time, but linked together by their inner content and by a certain singular sensation peculiar to them. Several such moments always recur to my mind together, and I feel then that it is these that have determined the chief trend of my life.

Marshall McLuhan photo

“Tactility is space of the interval.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)

Ray Kurzweil photo
Henry Gee photo

“The intervals of time that separate the fossils are so huge that we cannot say anything definite about their possible connection through ancestry and descent.”

Henry Gee (1962) British paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and editor

In Search of Deep Time—Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life, by Henry Gee, 1999, p. 23.

Francis Bacon photo

“Lucid intervals and happy pauses.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

History of King Henry VII, III (1622)

Eleftherios Venizelos photo

“I had to decide [he said later] whether I would be a lawyer by profession and a revolutionary at intervals, or a revolutionary by profession and a lawyer at intervals.”

Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) Greek politician

[Bagger, E. S., Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922, http://www.archive.org/download/eminenteuropeans00bagg/eminenteuropeans00bagg.pdf], p. 61

George Santayana photo

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

"War Shrines"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Lu Xun photo

“The so-called "peace" is an interval between wars.”

Lu Xun (1881–1936) Chinese novelist and essayist

9
"The Epigrams of Lusin"

Edgar Allan Poe photo

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic

Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.

Related topics