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Listening to New Music Rewards the Brain (4 of 11)

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Listening to New Music Rewards the Brain (4 of 11)

image: Researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute, Dr. Valorie Salimpoor and Dr. Robert Zatorre, examine how music taps into our brain's reward systems. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the April 12, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Valorie Salimpoor at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Interactions Between the Nucleus Accumbens and Auditory Cortices Predict Music Reward Value." view more 

Credit: [Image courtesy of Montreal Neurological Institute]


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