Music biology: all this useful beauty

Camilla N Clark; Laura E Downey; Jason D Warren

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.013

Music biology: all this useful beauty

Curr Biol. 2014 Mar 17;24(6):R234-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.013.

Authors

Camilla N Clark¹, Laura E Downey², Jason D Warren³

Affiliations

¹ Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK. Electronic address: camilla.clark@ucl.ac.uk.
² Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK. Electronic address: l.downey@ucl.ac.uk.
³ Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK. Electronic address: jason.warren@ucl.ac.uk.

PMID: 24650910
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.013

Abstract

Some healthy people fail to derive pleasure from music despite otherwise preserved perceptual and reward responses. Such 'musical anhedonia' implies the existence of music-specific brain reward mechanisms, which could provide a substrate for music to acquire biological value.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Cholinergic Neurons / physiology*
Prosencephalon / physiology*
Sleep / physiology*
Wakefulness / physiology*

Grants and funding

091673/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom