A new study shows our brain rhythms actually sync with sound to create emotion, movement and meaning–– shedding new light on the neuroscience of music and what makes music powerful. Our brain and body don’t just understand music, they physically resonate with it––and it shapes our sense of timing, musical pleasure and the instinct to move with the beat. The discoveries, the researchers argue, support Neural Resonance Theory (NRT), which explains our response to music as rising from fundamental dynamical principles of human brain mechanisms that apply from the ear all the way to the spinal cord and limb movements. Researchers say these discoveries could have big implications for music as therapy for conditions like stroke, Parkinson’s and depression, as well as for developing new learning technologies.
