Musical Illusions and Phantom Words: How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain

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 v...