Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is James McGill Professor Emeritus of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with courtesy appointments in music theory, computer science, neurology and neurosurgery, and education. He is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at The Minerva Schools at KGI, and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. From 2000 - 2017 he was Director of the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill. His TED talk has been viewed more than 8 million times. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). He has appeared frequently as a guest commentator on NPR and CBC.
