In this episode we speak to Dr. Robert Zatorre. Dr. Zatorre is a cognitive neuroscientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University. He helped to pioneer a new field of study that focuses on the intersection of music and the brain and is a founder and the co-director of an  international laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound research.

We all know that music gives us pleasure but you’ll be fascinated to find out exactly why. What is happening inside our heads when we listen to music? Why do some people like music more than others? Why do some songs become earworms and get stuck in our head? In this episode we sit down with a world renowned expert to answer these and many other fascinating questions.

Visit Dr. Zatorre’s Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at: zlab.mcgill.ca/ to learn more and access the lab’s original research publications.

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