The mOFC was the only cortical area that was commonly activated by all these contrasts, although each contrast also showed other activations (summarized in Table 2). This naturally led us to the heart of our enquiry, which was to learn, through the application of a conjunction analysis, whether activity in the same part of the mOFC correlated with the experience of visual and musical beauty. We used the following contrast for our conjunction analysis: [Visually Beautiful . Visually Ugly] and [Musically Beautiful . Musically Ugly]. This led to a significant conjunction in the mOFC at 23 41–8 (p,0.05, corrected) using an SVC of 16 mm. The results are given in Table 3. Superimposing the activations derived from the contrast Visually Beautiful . Visually Ugly and Musically Beautiful . Musically Ugly (using MRIcron: http://www.cabiatl.com/mricro), showed that the areas of activation derived from the two contrasts overlap substantially, if not totally.