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Daniel Levitin
Daniel Levitin is a neuroscientist and author of
This Is Your Brain on Music
and
The World in Six Songs
. His work has appeared in
The New York Times
,
The Wall Street Journal
, and
The Washington Post
. His forthcoming book is
The Organized Mind
.
Amnesia and the Self That Remains When Memory Is Lost
The tumor that erased Tom's memory did not touch his "soul."
Daniel Levitin
December 31, 2012