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. Then she 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’

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