Dissociation between Musical and Monetary Reward Responses in Specific Musical Anhedonia
Mas-Herrero, Zatorre, Rodriguez-Fornells and Marco-Pallares documented specific musical anhedonia, and the paper's title states the finding: a dissociation between musical and monetary reward responses. No abstract is published for it in OpenAlex, Crossref or Semantic Scholar and this publication has not read the full text, so nothing is claimed here beyond that. As this vault holds it, the condition describes people whose hearing and music perception are normal and whose reward system responds normally to other incentives, money in particular, but who report no pleasure from music. The importance is what it constrains rather than what it establishes: any account treating musical pleasure as an automatic consequence of perceiving organised sound has to accommodate people in whom the perception is intact and the reward does not follow. See Loui and colleagues (2017) for the connectivity work that followed.
Mas-Herrero, Zatorre, Rodriguez-Fornells and Marco-Pallares documented specific musical anhedonia, and the paper's title states the finding: a dissociation between musical and monetary reward responses. No abstract is published for it in OpenAlex, Crossref or Semantic Scholar and this publication has not read the full text, so nothing is claimed here beyond that. As this vault holds it, the condition describes people whose hearing and music perception are normal and whose reward system responds normally to other incentives, money in particular, but who report no pleasure from music. The importance is what it constrains rather than what it establishes: any account treating musical pleasure as an automatic consequence of perceiving organised sound has to accommodate people in whom the perception is intact and the reward does not follow. See Loui and colleagues (2017) for the connectivity work that followed.
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Mas-Herrero, E., Zatorre, R. J., Rodriguez-Fornells, A., & Marco-Pallarés, J. (2014). 'Dissociation between musical and monetary reward responses in specific musical anhedonia.' Current Biology, 24(6), 699-704. Cited here for the finding stated in its title; this publication has not obtained the abstract. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.068
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.068