Daniel Levitin
Scientist
Daniel Joseph Levitin, PhD, FRSC, (born December 27, 1957, San Francisco) is an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, best-selling author, musician and record producer. He is James McGill Professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with additional appointments in music theory, computer science, and education; Director of the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill, and Dean of Arts and Humanities at The Minerva Schools at KGI. From September 2006 to April 2007 he served as a weekly commentator on the CBC Radio One show Freestyle, and he has appeared frequently as a guest commentator on NPR.Levitin is known for his scientific articles on absolute pitch, music cognition and neuroscience. He is the author of three #1 best-selling books, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, (2006), The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (2008) and The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (2014). He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science and the Royal Society of Canada.Levitin worked as a producer and sound designer on albums by Blue Öyster Cult, Chris Isaak, Jonathan Richman and Joe Satriani among others; as a consultant on albums by artists including Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder and Michael Brook; and as a recording engineer for Santana and The Grateful Dead. Records and CDs to which he has contributed have sold in excess of 30 million copies.
Personal facts
| Alias (AKA) | Levitin Daniel J.; Levitin Dan |
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| Birth date | December 27, 1957 |
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| Birth place | California , San Francisco |
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| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Known for | This Is Your Brain On Music |
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