Ongoing History Daily: How your body and brain sync to music
A new international medical study started at McGill University in Montreal adds more credence to the idea of Neural Resonance Theory or NRT. It suggests that our enjoyment of music is rooted in “natural brain and body oscillations that sync with rhythm, melody, and harmony.”
Our brains somehow physically resonate with music. It gives us pleasure, shapes our sense of timing, and triggers an instinct to move with it. This reaction to music involves the brain, the spinal cord, and other parts of the body.
It also appears that this neural resonance is universal across all listeners from all over the world. In other words, this is more evidence that we are all hardwired for music in some fashion. This new study could help patients with Parkinson’s and stroke victims. It might even help with the development of AI.
