"intellectual reward" is correct and can be used in written English.
You might use this phrase to refer to the satisfaction of learning something new or gaining knowledge: "Studying for the exam was difficult, but the intellectual reward was worth it."
It's a character study of needling intelligence and jabbing accuracy, crafted and edited with exquisite 1970s-style jaggedness, yet offering no emotional or intellectual reward for placing us in this abject bastard's company.
What young graduates want today, Mr. McCullough said in his speech, is the accumulation of accolades rather than genuine intellectual reward: "It's, what does this get me?" The book, according to a publicity statement, will argue that "life is a great adventure to swallow whole rather than a checklist to complete".
Yet there is a China-related market where prices aren't so frothy, investment potential is good and intellectual reward awaits: contemporary Chinese art.
"We can look at music as an intellectual reward," Salimpoor said, adding, "It's essentially pattern recognition, and this is something humans are very good at".
But intellectual rewards also await.
At times, it will feel like you're pushing a boulder up that tartarean hill; persevere and the intellectual rewards are divine.
Other states like Maryland and California have invested more public and private funds in the development of biological research and product development and have reaped huge financial and intellectual rewards.
Happily, Wood partially eases his anxiety by suggesting that for Mitchell the setting offers similar intellectual rewards to his more obviously postmodern and structurally playful books like Cloud Atlas: "Its very historical distance – its self-enclosed quality – represents an assertion of pure fictionality.
Do not allow systemic adversities to defeat you: The same amazing intellectual rewards that physician-scientists of previous generations enjoyed are most certainly available for the current and future generations.
Especially in recent years, as new concepts have evolved to explain mechanisms that link the nucleic acid targets of lupus auto-antibodies to immune system activation and inflammation, the intellectual rewards of research on this most complex medical syndrome have grown.
Much has been made in the UK [ 81, 82] and Australia [ 83, 84] of the potential for the model of 'General Practitioner with Special Interests' (GPSI) to challenge this by increasing the intellectual rewards of general practice work for the existing workforce and enhancing the prospects of a satisfying career in general practice for interested students and trainees [ 81, 85].
