On today’s episode we are going to explore the role of music listening in the experience of pleasure. Does music increase our ability to feel pleasure? And if so, how does it work?
You've got that right-we are talking music and sex!
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Resources:
Belfi, A. M., Loui, P. (2020). Musical anhedonia and rewards of music listening: Current advances and a proposed model. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1464, 99–114.
Gold, B.P., et al. (2019) Predictability and uncertainty in the pleasure of music: a reward for learning?. JNeurosci.
Huron DB. (2006), Sweet anticipation: Music and the psychology of expectation. MIT press.
Salimpoor, V.N., D.H. Zald, R.J. Zatorre,et al. 2015. Predictions and the brain: how musical sounds become rewarding. Trends Cogn. Sci.19:86–91.
Zatorre, R.J. (2018). Why do we love music? Cerebrum 2018: pii: cer-16-18.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72772-3.pdf
https://www.elitedaily.com/p/listening-to-music-during-sex-has-these-3-effects-on-your-body-brain-8563332
