The central idea of the article “The Value of Music That Tickles the Brain” is How the brain

reacts to different stylings of music and how emotionally connected the brain gets when
listening to a certain type of song.

● The text explaining how the auditory cortex stores info on sounds and the nucleus
accumbens stores info on emotion
● A research explained that the more active the nucleus accumben was the more likely a
person would pay for the song
● It also states that depending on the person and how the perceive certain songs
depended on why their nucleus accumben was very active
● The reason for music meaning so much to person was a result in a ome thing called
cross talk
● The more activity in the nucleus accumben translated into more crosstalk with the
auditory cortex making the song more emotionally attachable