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Daniel J. Levitin
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Daniel J. Levitin is a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, and author known for books applying brain science to music, attention, and everyday decision-making.
Biography
Daniel Joseph Levitin (born 1957) is an American-Canadian polymath: cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is James McGill Professor Emeritus of psychology, behavioral neuroscience and music at McGill University; Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at Minerva University; a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; and Director of the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill.
Levitin has published scientific articles on absolute pitch, music cognition, neuroanatomy, and directional statistics, and has appeared frequently on NPR and CBC. A former member of the Board of Governors of the Grammys and a consultant to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the Psychonomic Society, and the Royal Society of Canada. He has also worked widely in the music industry as a consultant, producer, and sound designer; records and CDs to which he contributed have sold more than 30 million copies, and his books have been international bestsellers, collectively selling over 3 million copies.
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Books by Daniel J. Levitin
The Organized Mind
The Organized Mind (2014) applies the latest brain science to the problem of information overload, showing how people who manage information well do so and how readers can use those methods to organize their homes, workplaces, and time. Levitin illustrates practical applications of research on attention and memory across topics from the kitchen junk drawer to health care and executive workflow.