Rats can recognize and move to the rhythm of a beat, according to a new University of Tokyo study.
Researchers played Mozart, Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” and"Sugar" by Maroon 5 for rats and measured their head movements before comparing their results to the humans who participated in the study. They played the music at four different tempos and found rats best synchronized their head bops to music in the 120 to 140 beats per minute range, much like humans, according to the study.
Animals can be trained to move to a beat, but the rats in this study demonstrated an “innate” ability to groove, according to the news release. Animals are known to respond to music in reactive fashion, but that is not the same as recognizing a beat, responding to it or predicting it, the university said in its statement. Researchers call the ability to naturally recognize a beat in a song “beat synchronicity.”
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