PARIS, March 28 -- Whether at a party or a nightclub, you've probably noticed that some songs make you want to dance more than others. A study published in the journal Science Advances claims that this is no coincidence. In fact, our bodies naturally want to get moving when our brains are able to anticipate the rhythm of the music.

A research team from France's National Institute of Health & Medical Research, Inserm, and Aix-Marseille University came to this conclusion after studying the neural dynamics-ie, the interactions between neurons resulting from the brain's electrical activity-of 30 volunteers while they listened to a dozen melodies.

These melodies had been designed by the researchers to have a rhythm of 120 beats per minute. E...