When music comes on, can you clap along or do you struggle to find the beat? If you have a hard time keeping up with the rhythm, there’s a reason and it’s happening in your auditory cortex.
 
Show Notes: 
<a href="https://www.popsci.com/story/science/why-some-people-are-bad-at-dancing/">PopSci: Why Some People are Bad at Dancing</a>
<a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-are-you-beat-deaf">Science Alert: Are You Beat Deaf?</a>
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Primary_auditory_cortex_and_Auditory_association_areas.jpg" alt="File:Primary auditory cortex and Auditory association areas.jpg - Wikimedia Commons" />



Primary auditory cortex and Auditory association areas.jpg
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When music comes on, can you clap along or do you struggle to find the beat? If you have a hard time keeping up with the rhythm, there’s a reason and it’s happening in your auditory cortex. Show Notes: PopSci: Why Some People are Bad at Dancing Science Alert: Are You Beat Deaf? Primary auditory cortex and Auditory association areas.jpg Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons via the Creative Commons License.

When music comes on, can you clap along or do you struggle to find the beat? If you have a hard time keeping up with the rhythm, there’s a reason and it’s happening in your auditory cortex.
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Show Notes:&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.popsci.com/story/science/why-some-people-are-bad-at-dancing/" rel="noopener noreferrer">PopSci: Why Some People are Bad at Dancing</a>
<a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-are-you-beat-deaf" rel="noopener noreferrer">Science Alert: Are You Beat Deaf?</a>




Primary auditory cortex and Auditory association areas.jpg
Image courtesy <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Primary_auditory_cortex_and_Auditory_association_areas.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikimedia Commons</a> via the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode" rel="noopener noreferrer">Creative Commons License</a>.&nbsp;

145: Can't Find the Beat

Brain Junk is an off-the-wall, totally unbelievable but true podcast where Amy Barton and Trace Kerr shake up science & history in the hunt for answers to questions you never knew you wanted to know. We bring you the inside scoop on things like: Can goldfish drive? How do whales not drown while eating? Who had the first prosthetic eye? 
We cannonball off the question high dive every other Tuesday -- those of you in the front seats, bring your ponchos. We're out to flood your brain.

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Brain Junk is an off-the-wall, totally unbelievable but true podcast where Amy Barton and Trace Kerr shake up science & history in the hunt for answers to questions you never knew you wanted to know. We bring you the inside scoop on things like: Can goldfish drive? How do whales not drown while eating? Who had the first prosthetic eye? We cannonball off the question high dive every other Tuesday -- those of you in the front seats, bring your ponchos. We're out to flood your brain.

Brain Junk is an off-the-wall, totally unbelievable but true podcast where Amy Barton and Trace Kerr shake up science &amp; history in the hunt for answers to questions you never knew you wanted to know. We bring you the inside scoop on things like: Can goldfish drive? How do whales not drown while eating? Who had the first prosthetic eye? 
We cannonball off the question high dive every other Tuesday -- those of you in the front seats, bring your ponchos. We're out to flood your brain.

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