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Why You Love The Music You Love & The Horrible Things You Tell Yourself

Something You Should Know

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The Pecunius Is a Gatekeeper for Music

In our brains, there's a little neural structure called the pecunious. It is kind of a gatekeeper for our musical taste. When people were played music in these three categories, it increased its connections to something called the default network when it heard music that it liked. Same thing when you hear your favorite song, which you brought into the laboratory just for this purpose. But as soon as the peCunius hears a song it dislikes, it gets this response of do not want, not for me. And it decreases its connections to the default network. You get really good and really fast at deciding hate this,not for me, not my music.

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