The neurological basis is quite simple: the brain is a prediction machine, and it's rewarded when it predicts correctly.
This is why music is pleasant - it's highly structured nature is easy to predict, thus rewarding.
This can be further optimized: the "drop" in club music for example, which is anticipated and teased over even longer distance (tens of seconds, even minutes).
This is why music is pleasant - it's highly structured nature is easy to predict, thus rewarding.
This can be further optimized: the "drop" in club music for example, which is anticipated and teased over even longer distance (tens of seconds, even minutes).