Nov. 09, 2007
Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia
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Join Ira in this segment for a conversation with neurologist and author Oliver Sacks about 'Musicophilia,' his latest book. In this book, Sacks, the author of over a dozen books including 'Awakenings' and 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,' looks at the way music and the brain interact. Why can music sometimes remain in the brain long after other memories fade? Why can a person with limited language abilities still be able to sing unimpaired? |
Guests
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Oliver Sacks
Author, Musicophilia:
Tales of Music and the Brain (Knopf, 2007); An
Anthropologist on Mars (1995); The
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Vintage, 1985);
Awakenings
(Vintage, 1973, 1990)
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