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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
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2013-10-31
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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. "
What intrigued Todd was______.
选项
A、human instinct reflexes
B、people’ s biological heritages
C、people’ s compulsion about loud music
D、the damages loud music wrecks on human hearing
答案
C
解析
第二段Todd提到对于人们“dance to deafeningly loud music”这种现象,起初只是模糊地认为biology可能是关键,后来认为人体存在“a compulsion about it”,使他开始lookat the inner ear,it此处代指前句的music,故C项正确。
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