Daniel J. Levitin Biography

Daniel J. Levitin is the James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University. He holds Associate Appointments in the School of Computer Science Faculty of Education Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery and School of Music. He received the Principal's Teaching Prize in 2006 at McGill the University's highest teaching honor.
Dr. Levitin earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with a Ph.D. minor in Music Technology from the University of Oregon his B.A. from Stanford in cognitive psychology and completed post-doctoral training at Stanford University Medical School and UC Berkeley. He has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University where he taught courses in the Departments of Psychology Computer Science Human Biology Music Anthropology and the School of Education. He has also been a visiting professor in Psychology at UC Berkeley and Dartmouth.
Levitin has published more than 100 scientific articles in leading journals including Science Nature PNAS Neuron JEP:HPP and Cognition. He is credited with fundamental discoveries about the nature of musical memory and absolute pitch the neural correlates of musical structure and the role of the cerebellum in mediating musical emotion. His 1994 article on memory for music published in Perception & Psychophysics was listed by the Millenium Project as one of the top 100 papers in cognitive science of all time. In addition to his work in cognitive neuroscience Dr. Levitin maintains an active interest in new statistical methods. His work on circular statistics has been used by astronomers biologists and geologists and formed the basis for toolboxes in MatLab and R. Levitin also is actively engaged in disseminating science in the public interest through public speaking and television interviews. He is a frequent guest on NPR and CBC radio.

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