ND-0234 · 2011 · Other
Art for reward's sake: visual art recruits the ventral striatum
Lacey, Hagtvedt, Patrick et al. NeuroImage. 2011.
doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.027 · Finding drafted from the abstract
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Visual art recruited the ventral striatum because of its status as art, independently of how much people liked it.
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Beauty and the brain
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