How Music Rewards the Brain
Written By Lea Faes
Ever wondered what the feeling of pleasure looks like in our brains? Using music as a tool to find this out is perfect as it sets off the reward or pleasure network in a very powerful and immediate way.
Professor Zatorre looks at how our pleasure response predicts how much money we would spend on purchasing music, how predication enhances our experience of pleasure in music and how our advanced cognitive systems and our powerful emotion and reward system change our brains.
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