Experiencing the beat of a rhythm may be influenced.
by the body’s expectation of movement.
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Humans can spontaneously fall into rhythms with precision, and across a wide range of tempos. This may be because the same neurological processes that anticipate rhythm are involved with movement.
Rapper Beautiful The Artist performs in the music video for the dip hop song ‘DEAFinitely Lit.’
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Dip hop artists move across the stage, hands flying through the air, as audiences pulse to the rhythm of a blasting bass beat.
Learning how we respond to rhythm can lead to therapeutic applications.
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Why and how do we groove? Researchers are investigating how we respond to music, with applications for therapy.
Funky pigeon.
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Can animals find the beat in music and dance along?
Incredible rhythms when mathematics meets music.
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Mathematics can help musicians and music enthusiasts create rhythms that would be hard to play manually or to otherwise compose.
Some of us can’t help moving to a beat.
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The reason why some of us can’t help but to dance, and others can’t hold a beat, might lie in the brain.