# Research: Visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure that supports emotion perception (Current Biology, 2021)

**URL:** <https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/research-visual-and-auditory-brain-areas-share-a-representational-structure-that-supports-emotion-perception-current-biology-2021/67873>\
**Category:** Neuroscience, Psychology, and Health\
**Tags:** emotions\
**Created:** [October 12, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/research-visual-and-auditory-brain-areas-share-a-representational-structure-that-supports-emotion-perception-current-biology-2021/67873 "2021-10-12T16:55:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrisaldrich](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/chrisaldrich/32/104_2.png) [@chrisaldrich](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/chrisaldrich)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/research-visual-and-auditory-brain-areas-share-a-representational-structure-that-supports-emotion-perception-current-biology-2021/67873/1 "2021-10-12T16:55:29Z")

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I just bookmarked this article published today in Current Biology for later reading and [annotation](https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=tag%3Amemory+tag%3Asonglines). While the article isn’t specifically focused on memory, the fact that it touches on visual structures, emotion, music, and movement (dance) which are core to some peoples’ memory toolkits, I thought that many here would find it to be of interest.

One of the authors [provided](https://twitter.com/beausievers/status/1447962537027276802) the following tl;dr synopsis:

> "Across the world, people express emotion through music and dance. But why do music and dance go together?
> 
> We tested a deceptively simple hypothesis: Music and movement are represented the same way in the brain."

- Article: [Visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure that supports emotion perception](https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01283-5) (Current Biology, 2021)
- Preprint: [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/254961v4](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/254961v4)

For those who haven’t integrated song or dance into their practices, searching around for the idea of songlines will give you some background on their possible uses.

cc: @LynneKelly

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**Author:** ![LynneKelly](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/lynnekelly/32/385_2.png) [@LynneKelly](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/LynneKelly)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/research-visual-and-auditory-brain-areas-share-a-representational-structure-that-supports-emotion-perception-current-biology-2021/67873/2 "2021-10-14T05:07:42Z")

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Looks really interesting. Thanks for the tag.