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Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains

Unlocking the Mysteries of Music in Your Brain. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin uses examples from Beethoven to explore memory and music in this Proms Lecture hosted by Rana Mitter

Former musician and record producer Daniel Levitin is now a leading neuroscientist and best selling author. In this year marking the anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, Rana Mitter introduces a Proms Lecture called "Unlocking the Mysteries of Music in Your Brain", which uses Beethoven's compositions to set the Proms audience it was recorded with, in 2015, a series of challenges which reveal the relationship between memory and music.

You can also find Daniel Levitin talking to Rana Mitter about his latest research into ageing, and debating race and scientific evidence with Adam Rutherford in a Free Thinking episode called Genes, Racism, Ageing and Evidence /programmes/m000fpj2

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