Considerations about reward mechanisms and maintaining the functional nature of tonal music

From the end of the 1990s, several studies based on imaging evidenced the participation of reward mechanisms in the hearing of tonal music. Tonal music is constructed from a set of discrete elements (musical notes) organized in time according to mathematical reasons and well-defined structural relat...

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Main Authors: Marcelo Muniz, Maria Ines Nogueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Cogent Arts & Humanities
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2017.1364125