Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

Ok, I want to do a project on what different parts of the brain are needed to relate music with movement... dancing. Also how your brain choreographs dances with the music. I had a choice of doing a science fair projet or straight research. I have chosen to do the research paper but I need good information. If anyone has ideas as to where to get research for this projects please let me know. Also in case you need to know, I am in 7th grade center based gifted so I am 8th grade level. Thanks a bunch~muchamour06

Hi there,

I would suggest that you start by doing a google search using the terms "dancing movement brain" - I did this and several relevant articles came up. Here are a couple of links that may be useful:

http://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/research/ ... ntrol.html
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/brain.html
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n15/mente/musica.html

You may also want to search PubMed (http://www.pubmed.com) for articles relating to your topic.

Good luck and let us know if you have any more questions.

Mary

Thank you so much, This really helped!~muchamour06