Why do certain songs make us want to dance? Scientists may have the answer

PARIS, March 28 — Whether at a party or a nightclub, you’ve probably noticed that some songs make you want to dance more than others. A study published in the journal Science Advances claims that this is no coincidence. In fact, our bodies naturally want to get moving when our brains are able to anticipate the rhythm of the music.

A research team from France’s National Institute of Health & Medical Research, Inserm, and Aix-Marseille University came to this conclusion after studying the neural dynamics—ie, the interactions between neurons resulting from the brain’s electrical activity—of 30 volunteers while they listened to a dozen melodies.

These melodies had been designed by the researchers to have a rhythm of 120 beats per minute. Each melody was then modified to make its rhythm more or less complex, but without altering either the speed of the rhythm or the melody’s other musical characteristics.The scientists then asked the participants to listen to these melodies while they recorded their brain activity in real time using a magnetoencephalography machine.

At the same time, the study authors created a so-called ‘neurodynamic’ mathematical model of the neural network to better understand the calculations our brains make to determine whether a piece of music is “groovy” or not.The researchers found that participants were particularly keen to dance when they listened to music with a rhythm that was “not too simple or too complex,” as they report.

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