💃 🎶🕺 Have you ever wondered what makes you dance? How does your brain perceive the music, and how does your body adapt on the fly to allow this wonderful experience of dancing?
In this exciting event we will curiously delve into the scientific mysteries of music and dance.
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🧠𝐉𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑:
𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜?
Rhythms in music have a remarkable impact on our brains, bodies, and social interactions. Once we figure out how a rhythm is organized, it draws us in and compels us to move, from casual foot tapping to wild dancing. In music psychology, this engaging and pleasurable experience is known as ‘groove’. Our research shows that the most groove-inducing rhythms strike a delicate balance: They give us a steady beat to follow, while also surprising us with unexpected twists, like the syncopations found in swing or funk. These little surprises keep us engaged and on our toes. But groove isn’t just about moving on our own – it’s also about moving together. When we move in synchrony, such as during dance, the shared rhythm can boost our feelings of connection and togetherness. The song “One Nation Under a Groove” by Funkadelic (1978) powerfully illustrates this effect of social bonding. The band promotes social progress through musical rhythm: “With the groove our only guide, we shall all be moved.”
Jan is an assistant professor at the Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University. His research interests include rhythm perception and production, sensorimotor synchronization, social interaction in musical contexts, the experience of flow in musical activities, and the pleasurable urge to move to music, also known as the experience of groove. He has received an Erwin Schrödinger postdoctoral fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and a DOC doctoral fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
🧠𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐋𝐐𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐎𝐍:
𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐬? - 𝐑𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦, 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Why can some animals dance to a beat while others can’t—and what does that tell us about the brain? This talk dives into the mystery of beat perception and synchronization (BPS) across species, & recent challenges to the long-standing “vocal learning hypothesis”. We’ll look at which animals can keep a beat (and why), what this means for the evolution of rhythm processing, and how neuroscience is revising our assumptions about timing, music & musicality. I’ll close by shifting from beat to duration perception, sharing my own research on how music influences our sense of time in film. During the talk, you can expect some groovy videos of monkeys, parrots, and maybe even some sea lions!
Danish filmmaker Mattis Appelqvist Dalton is also musician and composer, a jazz double bassist who was classically trained at the Conservatoire National de Musicque et Dance in his native Aurillac, France. He furthered his studies at the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2020, he received his ScB in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music from Brown University, writing his thesis on “Aberrations in time: The effects of music-elicited emotions on time perception in film.
🌟 This event is part of The Why Not Aarhus Lindy Exchange 2025 - a Lindy Hop dance festival organized by Aarhus Lindy Hoppers -
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