In the first part of this interview with Daniel Levitin, learn about musical memory and the nuerochemicals associated with this form of cognition.

Oliver Sacks discusses how the human brain is wired for language and how this may apply to the human capacity for music.

Concetta Tomaino explains how music therapy can have exciting results for patients with neurological conditions because of the enriched sensory stimulus that it allows.

Oliver Sacks explains his first experience as a physician where he saw music transform Parkinson's patients into state where they could move and converse again.

Oliver Sacks takes a look at how finger movements and Suzuki training can affect the brain, especially at an early age.

Scientist Oliver Sacks takes a look at musicians brains and how brain imaging can reveal distinct differences in certain regions.

Oliver Sacks explains the how multiple regions of the brain interact to form the ways that humans interact with and create music.

Music therapist Concetta M. Tomaino says music seems to able to reach us when movement, memory, speech, and emotion have to all appearances been destroyed by injury or disease.

In part two of the interview with Daniel Levitin, learn about his take on the purpose of music and different arguments for the evolutionary origin of music.

In part three of Daniel Levitin's interview, learn about the medical implications of the research investigating the relationships between cognition and music.