From Perception to Pleasure

In From Perception to Pleasure, Robert Zatorre discusses why we love music and what enables us to create it, perceive it, and enjoy it from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, explaining how we get from perception of sound patterns to pleasurable responses. Zatorre's richly illustrated book provides an integrative model for a large body of scientific knowledge that explains how patterns of abstract sounds can generate profoundly moving hedonic experiences.