Music Response Models: How People Move To Music

Music Response Models: How do people move to music? This is basic level research of all the processes from music perception and recognition to the effects of rhythm on the way that people dance or move their bodies to music. After sound reaches the eardrum, it sets into motion of a complex combination of mechanical, chemical, and neural events in the cochlea, brain stem, midbrain nuclei, and cortex that result in a percept. The cerebellum plays a role in remembering the “settings” that can be used for synchronizing to music as people hear it, and it can recall these “settings” when people need it. The basal ganglia are the most important organ as it receives rhythm, tempo, and meter from the music and send the signals to recruit motor control
In the last decade, the researches on workout music has developed considerably fast. It helps psychologists redefine their ideas about why exercise and music are such an effective pairing for so many people to utilize as well as how music can change the body and mind of people during their physical activities. In recent researches, people run farther, bike longer and swim faster than usual when listen to music without even realizing that (Schwerin 2013.)
Two of the most important aspects of workout music are tempo or speed which is called rhythm responses. Most people have instincts to synchronize their movements and expressions with music to nod their heads, tap their toes or break out in dance even if they recall that instinct in many situations when listen to music and this applied also when using workout music. However, the variation of these music instincts can be different from culture to culture or from person to person depend on their background of development (Schwerin
There are two different outcomes to consider: primary outcomes and secondary outcomes. Primary outcomes considered are improvement in gait (e.g. velocity, cadence, stride length, stride symmetry, stride timing) and improvement in upper extremity function (e.g. hand grasp strength, frequency and duration of identified hand function, spatio temporal arm control). Secondary outcomes considered are communication, mood and emotions, social skills and interactions, pain, behavioral outcomes, activities of daily living, and adverse events. (Bradt, Magee, Dileo, Wheeler, McGilloway