Hammer time! Baby fish brain lights up listening to U Can't Touch This – video

Australian DJ and neuroscientist Rebecca Poulsen – AKA BeXta – is studying what happens to a zebrafish larvae brains when they hear certain sounds. Thenshe played one MC Hammer's 1990 hit… 'You can see when the vocal goes ‘ohhh-oh’, specific neurons light up and you can see it pulses to the beat,' she says. 'To me it looks like neurons responding to different parts of the music'Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Tags: Neuroscience Australia news Fish Environment Hip-hop Pop and rock Source Type: news