From perception to pleasure: Music and its neural substrates
Zatorre and Salimpoor review how the brain gets from perceiving a pattern of sound to a pleasurable response. They identify auditory cortical circuits responsible for encoding and storing tonal patterns, and discuss evidence that cortical loops between auditory and frontal cortices maintain musical information in working memory and support recognition of structural regularities, from which expectancies emerge. They then review the mesolimbic striatal system and its role in reward, motivation and pleasure in other domains, noting evidence that this dopaminergic system mediates pleasure associated with music, with reward value coded by activity in the nucleus accumbens whose functional connectivity with auditory and frontal areas increases as musical reward increases. Their proposal is that pleasure in music arises from interactions between cortical loops that generate predictions and expectancies from sound patterns and subcortical systems responsible for reward and valuation. This is the account behind the claim that a song wears out: the reward tracks the relationship between expectation and event.
Zatorre and Salimpoor review how the brain gets from perceiving a pattern of sound to a pleasurable response. They identify auditory cortical circuits responsible for encoding and storing tonal patterns, and discuss evidence that cortical loops between auditory and frontal cortices maintain musical information in working memory and support recognition of structural regularities, from which expectancies emerge. They then review the mesolimbic striatal system and its role in reward, motivation and pleasure in other domains, noting evidence that this dopaminergic system mediates pleasure associated with music, with reward value coded by activity in the nucleus accumbens whose functional connectivity with auditory and frontal areas increases as musical reward increases. Their proposal is that pleasure in music arises from interactions between cortical loops that generate predictions and expectancies from sound patterns and subcortical systems responsible for reward and valuation. This is the account behind the claim that a song wears out: the reward tracks the relationship between expectation and event.
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Zatorre, R. J., & Salimpoor, V. N. (2013). 'From perception to pleasure: music and its neural substrates.' PNAS, 110(Suppl 2), 10430-10437. Proposes that pleasure in music arises from interactions between cortical loops that generate predictions and expectancies from sound patterns and subcortical systems responsible for reward and valuation. doi:10.1073/pnas.1301228110
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- Why a Song Gives You Chills, Why We Engage
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301228110