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World Service,2 mins

Why does funk music make us want to dance?

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Professor Morten Kringelbach explains how we get pleasure from certain kinds of syncopated beats but says that if there are too many then we lose the desire to dance. (Photo: 3d render illustration of how music affects the brain. Credit to Shutterstock)

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