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Music reward and personality
Article: Montag, C., Reuter, M., & Axmacher, N. (2011). How one’s favorite song activates the reward circuitry of the brain: Personality matters! Behavioural Brain Research, 225, 511-514. Retrieved October 15, 2011, from Scholars Portal Journals This new journal article makes an interesting contribution to recent findings regarding music and reward in the brain. We know that the brain’s core reward system reacts strongly to our very favourite pieces of music – now it appears that this effect can be modulated by our personality. In January of this year I wrote a blog about an article by Valorie Salimpoor and colleagues, which examined the effect of listening to a favourite piece…
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PhD opportunity in music psychology
I had an email today from my friend Dr Alex Aksentijevic who co-ordinates the Applied Music Psychology course at Roehampton . He tells me that there is currently an opportunity for a PhD in music psychology at Roehampton, supervised by him. The details are below. Alex is a member of the CRICEI centre (Cognition, Emotion and Interaction), but he says you can chose another centre – the key for working with him, of course, is MUSIC! Category: Full-time Posted: 26 September 2011 Closing date for applications: 24 October 2011 Department of Psychology: PhD Research Bursaries (x4): The Department of Psychology intends to award, for October 2011, four, 3-year research bursaries. £15,590 per annum…
