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“Music and Emotions in the Brain: Familiarity Matters,” lead author Carlos Silva Pereira and his collaborators write that familiarity is a “crucial factor” in how emotionally engaged listeners are with a song.
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
anchoring effect
Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide
It enables us to become fully aware of what is happening—and to restrain
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
George Prochnik’s explanation for why he wrote In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Scientists have known for decades that the brain relegates more habitual jobs (like checking breathing and heart rate) to less thoughtful, more automatic, less energy-draining parts of the nervous system.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
We are not, one of Adam’s papers proves, wired to see slow, background change, when something bright and colorful is waving in our faces.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
coauthors James Gilmore and Joseph Pine (who wrote the seminal