This is your brain on David Byrne's music

A while back I reviewed Daniel Levitin's This Is Your Brain On Music, a fascinating book about neurology and music.

David Byrne visited Levitin's lab in Montreal (Levitin is a professor at McGill) in fall of 2006, and recently they met in New York to discuss things further.

The book is a fascinating read if you're so inclined, and the discussion doesn't rely too heavily on preexisting knowledge of the book if you want to just read that.

I found it particularly fascinating that David Byrne believes he had Asperger's syndrome (a developmental disorder in the Autistic spectrum) that he essentially healed and outgrew through music. Andrew Hill described himself as semi-autistic, which would probably be Asperger's as well, a high-functioning form of autism.