首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
医学
Why do people always want to get up and dance when they hear music? The usual explanation is that there is something embedded in
Why do people always want to get up and dance when they hear music? The usual explanation is that there is something embedded in
admin
2013-10-31
72
问题
Why do people always want to get up and dance when they hear music? The usual explanation is that there is something embedded in every culture—that dancing is a "cultural universal". A researcher in Manchester thinks the impulse may be more deeply rooted than that. He says it may be a reflex reaction.
Neil Todd, a psychologist at the University of Manchester, told the BA that he first got an inkling that biology was the key after watching people dance to deafeningly loud music. "There is a compulsion about it. " he says. He reckoned there might be a more direct, biological, explanation for the desire to dance, so he started to look at the inner ear.
The human ear has two main functions, hearing and maintaining balance. The standard view is that these tasks are segregated so that organs for balance, for instance, do not have an acoustic function. But Todd says animal studies have shown that the sacculus, which is part of the balance-regulating vestibular system, has retained some sensitivity to sound. The sacculus is especially sensitive to extremely loud noise, above 70 decibel.
" There’ s no question that in a contemporary dance environment, the sacculus will be stimulated. " says Todd. The average rave, he says, blares music at a painful 110 to 140 decibels. But no one really knows what an acoustically stimulated sacculus does. Todd speculates that listening to extremely loud music is a form of "vestibular self-stimulation" : it gives a heightened sensation of motion. "We don’t know exactly why it causes pleasure. " he says. "But we know that people go to extraordinary lengths to get it. " He list bungee jumping, playing on swings or even rocking to and fro in a rocking chair as other example of pursuits designed to stimulate the sacculus.
The same pulsing that makes us feel as though we are moving may make us get up and dance as well, says Todd. Loud music sends signals to the inner ear which may prompt reflex movement. "The typical pulse rate of dance music is around the rate of locomotion. " he says, "It’s quite possible you’ re triggering a spinal reflex. "
When the sacculus is acoustically stimulated, according to Todd, ______.
选项
A、functional balance will be maintained in the ear
B、pleasure will be aroused
C、decibel will shoot up
D、hearing will occur
答案
B
解析
根据第五段Todd的话“We don’t know exactly why it causes pleasure.”,可知小囊受刺激后,能够引起pleasure,故B项正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/fLU3777K
本试题收录于:
医学博士外语题库考研分类
0
医学博士外语
考研
相关试题推荐
Cultureshockmightbecalledanoccupationaldiseaseofpeoplewhohavebeensuddenlytransplantedabroad.Likemostailments,
Scienceisthe4-yearpursuitofknowledgethateveryhighschoolteenagermustlivethrough.Ioftenaskmyself,whenwillIev
Scienceisthe4-yearpursuitofknowledgethateveryhighschoolteenagermustlivethrough.Ioftenaskmyself,whenwillIev
A、Notalkingisallowed.B、Identificationcardsmustbedisplayed.C、Foodanddrinksarenotallowed.D、Computersciencemajors
Tomorrow’smatchhasbeencalledoffbecauseofthefoulweather.
A、Thestalefoodheate.B、Thefruitjuicehedrank.C、Toomuchfoodheate.D、Thecoldhegot.A男士讲到自己吃了somestaledbreadando
A、Lookinthelibrarycatalogue.B、Borrowtheman’scomputer.C、SeektheinformationfromtheInternet.D、Seektheinformationf
Thisguidegivesyouinformationonthebestself-carestrategiesandthelatestmedicaladvances.
A、Onmagazinecovers.B、Onpostagestamps.C、Ontelevisionads.D、Onnewspaper.C第二段提到对于健身的宣传在杂志封面、邮票和电视广告上到处都是,没有提及D项。
Thereisanewtypeofsmalladvertisementbecomingincreasinglycommoninnewspapersclassifiedcolumns.Itissometimesplaced
随机试题
在坐标图上,表示收入和消费关系的45°线意味着()
B公司通过租赁方式取得一项公允价值为1950万元的管理用固定资产,租赁期开始日为2011年1月1日,固定资产使用期4年,租赁期2年,租赁期满归还出租方,合同利率6%,每年年末支付租金1000万元,承租方担保余值100万元,另以银行存款支付初始直接费用等10
下列哪种情况下动脉CO2分压降低?
针灸治疗惊悸怔忡的基本处方是针灸治疗水饮内停证之惊悸怔忡的配穴是
设总体X的概率密度为而X1,X2,…,Xn是来自该总体的样本,则未知参数θ的最大似然估计量是()。
国际收支下的经常项目包括()。
所有水平上乘、特色鲜明的大学,无一不是办学主体在公平的市场竞争环境下逐步形成的。当前市场的公平竞争机制还存在着扭曲现象,在办学资源的配置还主要是靠各级政府“有形的手”操控的情况下,高校的办学模式趋同、办学特色缺失就是不可避免的“天然产物”了。解决这个问题的
A.黄色黏稠脓液B.淡黄稀薄脓液C.翠绿色、稍黏稠、有酸臭味的脓液D.灰白或灰褐色、有明显腐败坏死臭味的脓液E.稀薄污浊、暗灰色米汤样、夹杂干酪样坏死物的脓液金黄色葡萄球菌感染形成的脓液为()。
警察甲因为公民吴某举报自己受贿而怀恨在心,遂用他人手机向某军官发了一条短信,捏造吴某与其妻同居的事实,该军官信任自己妻子未予理睬,甲的行为构成()。(2012一专一9)
InBritain,highschoolstudentscanrunabusiness!Eachbusinessrunsforoneyear.Whentheystarttheirbusiness,theyborro
最新回复
(
0
)