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Daniel Levitin: Works, Culture, Technology & Career
Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian polymath, cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is the author of four New York Times best-selling books, including This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, (Dutton/Penguin 2006; Plume/Penguin 2007) which has sold…
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Daniel Levitin topic overview
The analysis highlights Works, Culture, Technology and Career as prominent areas in the source structure around Daniel Levitin. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.
Related topics
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Source areas
9
Connected nodes
210
Extracted relationships
155
Related term clusters
51
Bridge connections
210
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Overview · 44 topics
Biography and education · 37 topics
Music producing and engineering · 33 topics
Awards · 25 topics
Music · 22 topics
Media appearances · 13 topics
Writing career · 13 topics
Selected publications · 9 topics
In popular culture · 5 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Known for
Levitin effect, This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, A Field Guide to Lies, Successful Aging (published as The Changing Mind in the U.K.), I…
Alma mater
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Berklee College of Music Stanford University (B.A., 1992) University of Oregon (MSc, 1993; PhD, 1996).
Academic advisors
Roger Shepard, Michael Posner, Douglas Hintzman, John R. Pierce, Stephen Palmer
Born
(1957-12-27) December 27, 1957 (age 68) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Fields
Music cognition, cognitive neuroscience of music, cognitive psychology
Notable students
Regina Nuzzo, Susan Rogers
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Daniel Levitin
5Royal Society of Canada · Polymath · Cognitive psychologist
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Advanced semantic analysis
How Daniel Levitin connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Daniel Levitin shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Daniel Levitin → Absolute Memory, Acta Acustica United With, Acustica, AjaSteely Dan, Angels, Architects, Arts, Award, Awarded, Axiom Business Book Awards, Banff World Television Festival, Barburners, Best Blues Album, Best Book, Best Debut Author, Best Film Soundtrack, Best Sound, Can't Buy, Chicago International Film Festival, Cine Special Jury Prize Another extracted example is Daniel Levitin → BA, Berkeley, Berklee College, California, Daly City, Dartmouth College, Douglas Hintzman, Interval Research, John, Karl, Levitin Effect, Lloyd Levitin, Massachusetts Institute, Merrill Garrett, Michael Posner, Molly Potter, Moraga, MSc, Music, Oregon. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Daniel Levitin
Top relations
related to Awards· 97
Daniel Levitin → Absolute Memory, Acta Acustica United With, Acustica, AjaSteely Dan, Angels, Architects, Arts, Award, Awarded, Axiom Business Book Awards, Banff World Television Festival, Barburners, Best Blues Album, Best Book, Best Debut Author, Best Film Soundtrack, Best Sound, Can't Buy, Chicago International Film Festival, Cine Special Jury Prize
related to Biography and education· 37
Daniel Levitin → BA, Berkeley, Berklee College, California, Daly City, Dartmouth College, Douglas Hintzman, Interval Research, John, Karl, Levitin Effect, Lloyd Levitin, Massachusetts Institute, Merrill Garrett, Michael Posner, Molly Potter, Moraga, MSc, Music, Oregon
related to In popular culture· 7
Daniel Levitin → Colm Feore, In The Listener TV, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Levitin, Ray, Stairway To Heaven
Workplaces· 6
Daniel Levitin → Dartmouth College, Interval Research Corporation, McGill University, Minerva University, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley
Academic advisors· 1
Daniel Levitin → Roger Shepard, Michael Posner, Douglas Hintzman, John R. Pierce, Stephen Palmer
Alma mater· 1
Daniel Levitin → Massachusetts Institute of Technology Berklee College of Music Stanford University (B.A., 1992) University of Oregon (MSc, 1993; PhD, 1996).
Born· 1
Daniel Levitin → (1957-12-27) December 27, 1957 (age 68) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Fields· 1
Daniel Levitin → Music cognition, cognitive neuroscience of music, cognitive psychology
Known for· 1
Daniel Levitin → Levitin effect, This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, A Field Guide to Lies, Successful Aging (published as The Changing Mind in the U.K.), I…
Notable students· 1
Daniel Levitin → Regina Nuzzo, Susan Rogers
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
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Daniel Levitin relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 155 structured relationships around Daniel Levitin. Examples in this analysis include Daniel Levitin → Academic advisors → Roger Shepard, Michael Posner, Douglas Hintzman, John R. Pierce, Stephen Palmer and Daniel Levitin → Alma mater → Massachusetts Institute of Technology Berklee College of Music Stanford University (B.A., 1992) University of Oregon (MSc, 1993; PhD, 1996).. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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Daniel Levitin
Academic advisors
Roger Shepard, Michael Posner, Douglas Hintzman, John R. Pierce, Stephen Palmer
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Daniel Levitin
Alma mater
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Berklee College of Music Stanford University (B.A., 1992) University of Oregon (MSc, 1993; PhD, 1996).
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Daniel Levitin
Born
(1957-12-27) December 27, 1957 (age 68) San Francisco, California, U.S.
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Daniel Levitin
Fields
Music cognition, cognitive neuroscience of music, cognitive psychology
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Daniel Levitin
Known for
Levitin effect, This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, A Field Guide to Lies, Successful Aging (published as The Changing Mind in the U.K.), I…
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infobox
Daniel Levitin
Notable students
Regina Nuzzo, Susan Rogers
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Daniel Levitin
Website
daniellevitin.com levitinlab.com
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Daniel Levitin
Workplaces
McGill University
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Workplaces
Stanford University
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Daniel Levitin
Workplaces
Dartmouth College
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Daniel Levitin
Workplaces
University of California at Berkeley
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Workplaces
Minerva University
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Daniel Levitin
Workplaces
Interval Research Corporation
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Related concept clusters Related term clusters
Related term clusters group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Daniel Levitin bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Scientific, Levitin and Consultant. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
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this is your brain on music: the science of a human obsession
Dutton
Penguin
Human
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the world in six songs: how the musical brain created human nature
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a field guide to lies: critical thinking in the information age
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Daniel Levitin, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Daniel Levitin with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Daniel Levitin
Nodes211
Edges210
Triples155
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009479
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Daniel Levitin to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Culture, Technology & Career, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
