Aniruddh “Ani” Patel is a Professor of Psychology at Tufts University, where he studies the cognitive, neural, and evolutionary foundations of musicality. He is the author of Music, Language and the Brain, and contributed a chapter on evolution and animal responses to music to Renée Fleming's Music and the Mind: Harnessing The Arts for Health and Wellness. Patel will close the week for the Chautauqua Lecture Series focusing on “Exploring the Transformative Power of Music” by discussing his work in music cognition: the mental processes involved in making, perceiving, and responding to music.

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