Born to Dance?

“Humans have a unique ability to coordinate their motor movements to an external auditory stimulus, as in music-induced foot tapping or dancing,” says a report published by researchers from the universities of York, England, and Jyva¨ skyla¨ , Finland. The researchers found that even before infants learned to speak, they responded to the rhythm of music and spontaneously tried tomove in time with the beat. The more successful their attempts, the longer they smiled. This suggests that the sense of rhythmand a desire to move with music are not something we pick up but something that comes naturally.

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