Sex and Money on the Brain
Back in 1991, Mark Knopfler sang"Sex and money are my major kicksGet me in a fight I like the dirty tricks"Now twenty years later a team of French neuroscientists have followed up on this observation with a neuroimaging study: The Architecture of Reward Value Coding in the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex.Sescousse et al note that people like erotic stimuli, i.e. porn, and they also like money. However, there's a difference: porn is, probably, a more "primitive" kind of rewarding stimulus, given that