Daniel Joseph Levitin, Ph.D., FRSC, (born December 27, 1957, San Francisco) is an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, and writer. and Dean of Arts and Humanities at The Minerva Schools at KGI. He is also a record producer and musician. From September 2006 to April 2007 he served as a weekly commentator on the CBC Radio One show
Freestyle, and he has appeared frequently on NPR.
Levitin is known for his scientific articles on absolute pitch, music cognition and neuroscience. He is the author of three #1 best-selling books,
This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, (2006), as a consultant on albums by artists including Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder and Michael Brook; and as a recording engineer for Santana and The Grateful Dead.