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Science 10 May 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5570, p. 1032
DOI: 10.1126/science.1069028
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Where Science Meets the Arts

A review by Josef P. Rauschecker

Beethoven's Anvil Music in Mind and Culture
William Benzon
Basic Books (HarperCollins), New York, 2001. 352 pp. $27.50, £19.99. ISBN 0-465-01543-3.

Exploring links between music and the brain, Benzon argues that music, dance, ritual, and religion were intermixed in early humans. He concludes that by engaging many parts of the brain, music "literally keeps the brain in tune with itself and with the brains of others."
The author is at the Department of Physiology, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA. E-mail: rauschej{at}georgetown.edu

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