Lehrer: Proust Was a Neuroscientist
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(New page: {{BNR-table|scienticity=5|readability=5|hermeneutics=5|charisma=5|recommendation=5}} Jonah Lehrer, ''Proust Was a Neuroscientist''. Boston : Mariner Book/Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008. x + 24...) |
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But before a pattern can be desired by the brain, that pattern must play hard to get. Music only excites us when it makes the auditory cortex struggle to uncover its order. If the music is too obvious, if its patterns are always present, it is annoyingly boring. This is why composers introduce the tonic note in the beginning of the song and then studiously avoid it until the end. The longer we are denied the pattern we expect, the great the emotional release when the pattern returns, safe and sound. | But before a pattern can be desired by the brain, that pattern must play hard to get. Music only excites us when it makes the auditory cortex struggle to uncover its order. If the music is too obvious, if its patterns are always present, it is annoyingly boring. This is why composers introduce the tonic note in the beginning of the song and then studiously avoid it until the end. The longer we are denied the pattern we expect, the great the emotional release when the pattern returns, safe and sound. | ||
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