News Finding: aEURoeListening to music doesnaEUR(tm)t just activate the auditory regions of the brain,aEUR Poeppel explains.
Paper Finding: These findings, taken together, show that beta oscillations play an important role in musical processing and are increased with musical training.
News Context: The authors speculate that this could be why the rhythm sections of so many music styles around the world rely on bass, drums and lower tones, and why discordant guitar solos and blaring saxophone leads can sound just fine when off-beat bass guitar doesnaEUR(tm)t.
  
  Poeppel cautions that this research is in its early stages, but speculates that if in fact we are more likely to entrain to lower frequencies it could help explain another critical component of musical perception: movement. aEURoeListening to music doesnaEUR(tm)t just activate the auditory regions of the brain,aEUR Poeppel explains. aEURoeRhythmic input also automatically activates your motor cortex too.
Paper Context: 6F ). These findings, taken together, show that beta oscillations play an important role in musical processing and are increased with musical training. To our knowledge, these data represent the first demonstration of cortical phase entrainment of delta-theta oscillations to natural music.