Musical Reward (IMAGE)

McGill University

Musical Reward

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Researchers found that reward prediction errors from music correlated with activity in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region that in previous studies has been shown to activate when the subject is experiencing musical pleasure.

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Ben Gold

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