News Finding: The work also reveals why your musician friends are sometimes more tolerant of really boring music.
Paper Finding: This suggests a communication-throughcoherence mechanism in which relevant brain regions gain access to the stimulus by entraining to the parsing mechanism.
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: found that cortical entrainment was selectively increased in posterior middle temporal gyrus, associated with lexical access , when sentences were intelligible. This suggests a communication-throughcoherence mechanism in which relevant brain regions gain access to the stimulus by entraining to the parsing mechanism. A similar effect could be occurring in musicians where training manifests structural and functional changes, presumably, to optimize processing and production of musical stimuli.