Scientists have discovered that rats are able to perceive the beat of music and bop their heads along to the rhythm – an attribute previously thought to exist only in humans.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo played music for 10 rats, fitted with wireless accelerometers to measure their head movement, according to the study published Friday in the journal The music included Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust, Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, Beat It by Michael Jackson and Sugar by Maroon 5.
“Rats displayed innate — that is, without any training or prior exposure to music — beat synchronization most distinctly within 120-140 bpm , to which humans also exhibit the clearest beat synchronization,” Associate Professor Hirokazu Takahashi of the University of Tokyo said in aThe team also discovered that both rats and humans moved their heats to the beat in a similar rhythm, and that the level of head jerking decreased as the music was sped up.
Researchers on the project said their discovery feels like an insight into the creation of music itself.
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