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Diana Deutsch is Professor of Psychology at theUniversity of California, San Diego, She is internationally known for the musical illusions and paradoxes that she discovered; these includetheoctave illusion, thescale illusion, theglissando illusion, thetritone paradox, thecambiata illusion, thephantom words illusionand thespeech-to-song illusion, among others. She also exploresmemory for music,and how we relate the sounds ofmusic and speechto each other. In addition she studies absolute pitch- why some peoplepossess it, and whyit is so rare. Deutsch has over 200 publications, includingMusical Illusions and Phantom Words: How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain(2019),The Psychology of Music, (1st edition, 1982; 2nd edition (1999), 3rd edition (2013) and the compact discsMusical Illusions and Paradoxes (1995)andPhantom Words and Other Curiosities(2003).She has been elected a Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, theAcoustical Society of America, theAudio Engineering Society, theSociety of Experimental Psychologists, theAmerican Psychological Society(renamed the Association for Psychological Science), and theAmerican Psychological Association. She received theRudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Artsfrom theAmerican Psychological Association, theGustav Theodor Fechner Award for Outstanding Contributions to Empirical Aestheticsfrom theInternational Association of Empirical Aesthetics, theScience Writing Award for Professionals in Acousticsfrom theAcoustical Society of America, and theGold Medal Awardfrom theAudio Engineering Societyfor lifelong contributions to the understanding of the human hearing mechanism and the science of psychoacoustics. Read longer Biography In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world s leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech--many of which she herself discovered--have fundamentally altered thinking about the brain. These astonishing illusions show that people can differ strikingly in how they hear musical patterns--differences that reflect variations in brain organization as well as influences of language on music perception. Drawing on a wide variety of fields, including psychology, music theory, linguistics, and neuroscience, Deutsch examines questions such as: When an orchestra performs a symphony, what is the real music? Is it in the mind of the composer, or the conductor, or different members of the audience? Deutsch also explores extremes of musical ability, and other surprising responses to music and speech. Why is perfect pitch so rare? Why do some people hallucinate music or speech? Why do we hear phantom words and phrases? Why are we subject to stuck tunes, or earworms ? Why do we hear a spoken phrase as sung just because it is presented repeatedly? In evaluating these questions, she also shows how music and speech are intertwined, and argues that they stem from an early form of communication that had elements of both. Many of the illusions described in the book are so striking and paradoxical that you need to hear them to believe them. The book enables you to listen to the sounds that are described while reading about them. More So the attributes of The Psychology of Music are thoroughness, authority and clarity. That one volume can so adeptly select, draw on, arrange, assess, amplify its material and invite the reader to draw meaningful and reliable conclusions relevant to his/her love of music is a huge achievement. That the book does so with appositeand well-adduced illustrations while at the same time blending technical and specialist accuracy with accessibility is remarkable... - from review by Mark Sealey These two CDs are absolutely mind-boggling. Diana is, in effect, hosting a magical mystery tour of your own brain, and believe me, it s quite a ride. -from review by Ian Rowland. More praise for the CDs

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