They are groups of neurons that are in deep areas of the brain and that are responsible for modulating posture, starting and ending a movement… In addition to being involved in the reward or pleasure system, the researcher points out.
In these basal ganglia is the origin of some degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s among others, in which there is a progressive degeneration of some of them that causes a decrease in dopamine (a substance involved in movement, pleasure …) and that in last instance produces, among others, alteration of the movement.
The greater activation caused by reggaeton implies that there are more auditory brain regions and motor that are activated and therefore there is a greater machinery working in processing the music.
The significant activation in the areas of the brain responsible for movement could be due “to the generation of an internal pulse within us when trying to guess when the next pulse is coming. It is as if reggaeton, with that peculiar and repetitive rhythm, prepares us for movement, to dance just by listening to it “.
Jesús Martín-Fernández emphasizes that reggaeton does not always use more basic chords than other styles such as electronic, but it does use them in a predictable way as well as having a rhythm that does not vary throughout the song.
Classical music, on the other hand, is much more complex, with much greater tonal and melodic variety and with a much less marked rhythm and therefore less predictable.
In these basal ganglia is the origin of some degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s among others, in which there is a progressive degeneration of some of them that causes a decrease in dopamine (a substance involved in movement, pleasure …) and that in last instance produces, among others, alteration of the movement.
The greater activation caused by reggaeton implies that there are more auditory brain regions and motor that are activated and therefore there is a greater machinery working in processing the music.
The significant activation in the areas of the brain responsible for movement could be due “to the generation of an internal pulse within us when trying to guess when the next pulse is coming. It is as if reggaeton, with that peculiar and repetitive rhythm, prepares us for movement, to dance just by listening to it “.
Jesús Martín-Fernández emphasizes that reggaeton does not always use more basic chords than other styles such as electronic, but it does use them in a predictable way as well as having a rhythm that does not vary throughout the song.
Classical music, on the other hand, is much more complex, with much greater tonal and melodic variety and with a much less marked rhythm and therefore less predictable.
With these results “a door is opened” to investigate more, both about music and its global processing in the brain and to see how this same experiment affects patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, indicates the researcher, who highlights that this study It is the first in the scientific literature that compares reggaeton and classical music and therefore we have to wait to continue the investigation.