Sublime

“Music and Emotions in the Brain: Familiarity Matters,” lead author Carlos Silva Pereira and his collaborators write that familiarity is a “crucial factor” in how emotionally engaged listeners are with a song.

I tend to fall in love with a certain composer or artist and to play their music over and over, almost exclusively, for weeks or months, until it is replaced with something else.

For optimal learning, the brain must avoid any distraction.

David Cope is a musicology professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz. He is also one of the more controversial figures in the world of classical music. Cope has written computer programs that compose concertos, chorales, symphonies and operas. His first creation was named EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), which specialised in

The division of labor between System 1 and System 2 is highly efficient: it minimizes effort and optimizes performance.

“ambient music.”

mode of attention, and it is responsible for so many high-level things we do that researchers have named it “the central executive.”