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What music makes you dance every time?
According to a study published in the journal “Science Advences” by Inserm researchers, certain melodies have the power to make us dance.
A question of tempo?
You hear a note, a melody and you can't help but dance?
Certain music has the gift of making us move, as demonstrated by a new study published in the journal
Science Advences
by researchers from Inserm.
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A question of rhythm
Remember the tune of “Give Me the Night” by George Benson... Does this music take you away?
You may have had an intuition about it, but now science puts it into an equation.
It's all about rhythm, explains Benjamin Morillon, director of the study.
"Time is probably processed by our motor system. Since our motor system coordinates movements, it requires extremely precise clockwork. And in music, time is very important because there are very strong rhythms, so naturally we are going to activate this clockwork which allows us to estimate durations and therefore we activate our motor system."
“We prefer to dance to music that has a rhythm that is neither too simple nor too complex”
But then without overheating, because the humans that we are are above all in measurement.
"We prefer to dance to music that has a rhythm that is neither too simple nor too complex because it represents a reasonable challenge in a way. If something is too simple, it's trivial, it bores us, if it's too complicated , we get discouraged,” continues Benjamin Morillon.