This is Scientific Americans, 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkins.

Ever notice that some music just really makes you want to dance?

Well, a new study shows that it is, indeed, all about the bass.

Because researchers have found that during a concert, boosting the bass bumps up the

boogieing, the results appear in the journal, current biology.

Music and musical rhythm have been kind of fascinating to me for a long time, since

I was a kid.

And in particular, the way that they make us feel.

Daniel Cameron is a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University.

He also plays drums.

As a drummer, you're interested in making the crowd want to move and feel good and give

a good pleasurable time feel, and this is related to the work I do in science.

Cameron and his colleagues want to understand how music can engender in almost irrepressible

urge to feel our bodies in motion.

And we knew from anecdotal evidence and other experimental evidence that there was an association

between bass and dancing.

So people who enjoy electronic dance music, or EDM, report that the thrombing bass produces

a sensation that makes them want to move.

In some studies have shown that our movements are more fine-tuned when we're locked on

to bass notes.

So for example, if you have people tap along to a sequence of tones, they're tapping

is slightly more accurate, they're more synchronized when those tones are low in frequency compared

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