Steven
Pinker
,
a
cognitive
psychologist
best
known
for
his
book
?
The
Language
Instinct
?
,
has
called
music
?
auditory
cheesecake
,
an
exquisite
confection
crafted
to
tickle
the
sensitive
spots
of
at
least
six
of
our
mental
faculties
.
?
If
it
____________________
from
our
species
,
he
said
,
?
the
rest
of
our
lifestyle
would
be
____________________
unchanged
.
?
Others
have
argued
that
,
on
the
____________________
,
music
,
along
with
art
and
literature
,
is
part
of
what
makes
people
human
;
its
absence
would
have
a
brutalising
e
?
ect
.
Philip
Ball
,
a
British
science
writer
and
an
avid
music
enthusiast
,
comes
down
somewhere
in
the
middle
.
He
says
that
music
is
ingrained
in
our
auditory
,
cognitive
and
motor
functions
.
We
have
a
music
instinct
as
much
as
a
language
____________________
,
and
could
not
rid
ourselves
of
it
if
we
tried
.
