News Finding: The work also reveals why your musician friends are sometimes more tolerant of really boring music.
Paper Finding: The effect is clearly right lateralized and the topography is consistent with right auditory cortex.
News Context: It turns out, the answer has a lot to do with timing. The work also reveals why your musician friends are sometimes more tolerant of really boring music. They found that the brain wave rhythms of nonmusicians didnaEUR(tm)t entrain to music with a tempo less than one note per second, or what would be considered slow music.
Paper Context: 4 shows the transformed correlation (Materials and Methods) between entrainment at the dominant note rate and hit rate, at the subject level. The effect is clearly right lateralized and the topography is consistent with right auditory cortex. A second cluster in the left hemisphere did not reach significance (P = 0.14).