How We Sync With Sound

A simple beat, a heady melody, and our body responds instinctively – a foot starts tapping, or we start to sway in time with the beat.

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So what's going on in our brains?

A North American study published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience offers a surprising explanation for this phenomenon. It claims we don't just hear music, but our brains and bodies physically resonate with it.

This study – led by Edward Large, director of the music dynamics laboratory at the University of Connecticut, and Caroline Palmer, professor of psychology at McGill University – presents a bold hypothesis supporting the idea of Neural Resonance Theory (NRT).