Hearing music - perhaps the most the sublime gift of our sense of hearing. But why is music so important to us and why does it have such a profound effect on the human heart?

In Hearing, episode one of The Science of the Senses, finding the answer to that question will take us on a journey through the ear, into the brain and right into the heart of the human psyche. Along the way, we will meet world class neuroscientists, Daniel Levitin, Oliver Sacks and Steven Pinker, and a host of extraordinary people--from a woman whose brain cannot "hear" music to a deaf musician who is one of the world's top percussionists.

We'll also meet Dr. Blake Papsin, of Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto, to explore how a revolutionary little device called the cochlear implant is restoring hearing to the deaf, and visit a family of four, who demonstrate how our remarkably adaptable brains can learn to hear, even after a lifetime of silence.

A feast for the eyes and ears, The Science of the Senses: Hearing is a celebration of this remarkable sense and what our marvellous brains have done with it.

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