In record producer and neuroscientist Susan Rogers鈥檚 This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You, she writes, 鈥淭he music that delivers the maximum gratification to you is determined by seven influential dimensions of musical listening.鈥� Those seven dimensions are authenticity, realism, novelty, melody, lyrics, rhythm, and timbre.
This hour, we talk with Rogers about some of those seven dimensions, the role of the listener in music, and why we are drawn to some songs and not others.
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- Susan Rogers: Multi-platinum record producer, cognitive neuroscientist, and co-author of
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Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired October 15, 2022.
