Is there a scientific formula for writing a smash hit pop song?

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Composers know intuitively that expectancy plays a big part in how much pleasure we derive from music, but the exact relationship has remained hazy.

Musical pleasure itself was reflected in the brain's amygdala, hippocampus and auditory cortex — regions associated with processing emotions, learning and memory, and processing sound, respectively.

Cheung explained that he and colleagues decided to strip the music down to just chords because lyrics and melody might remind listeners of associations attached to songs, and so contaminate the experiment.

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