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BBC World Service: Why does funk music make us want to dance?

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Professor Morten Kringelbach, from the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, explains how we get pleasure from certain kinds of syncopated beats.

Prof Morten Kringelbach appears on the BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor' to explain the optimum syncopation to get us grooving. Hear how he has discovered the sweet spot of pleasure - deep in the rhythms of James Brown.

Read more (Department of Psychiatry website)

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