Brain Hub That Links Music, Memory And Emotion Discovered
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 01:22
in Psychology & Sociology
By using fMRI to map brain activity of college students as they listened to a variety of tunes from their younger years, then comparing the activity to the students' responses to questions about each tune, a researcher has found that the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex is a hub that responds to music, memory and emotion.
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