Impossible to stay still while dance music is playing? Here’s why:

The Electric Daisy Carnival brings music, lights and dance to Orlando's Tinker Field.

Swaying along with the music, or nodding your head to a beat, can feel as though it is happening automatically when a song comes flowing from loudspeakers. But have you tried to resist? Researchers have discovered that it is virtually impossible to stand completely still when hearing music.

“Nobody has managed it so far,” says Alexander Refsum Jensenius a Professor of Music Technology. He is conducting research on human micro-movements along with Victor Evaristo Gonzalez Sanchez, postdoctoral fellow in biomechanics, and Agata Zelechowska, doctoral research fellow in music psychology.

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