Now you hear it: A predictive coding model for understanding rhythmic incongruity

P Vuust, MJ Dietz, M Witek… - Annals of the New York …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Rhythmic incongruity in the form of syncopation is a prominent feature of many
contemporary musical styles. Syncopations afford incongruity between rhythmic patterns …

Groove in drum patterns as a function of both rhythmic properties and listeners' attitudes

O Senn, L Kilchenmann, T Bechtold, F Hoesl - PloS one, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
Music psychology defines groove as humans' pleasureable urge to move their body in
synchrony with music. Past research has found that rhythmic syncopation, event density …

Groove rhythm stimulates prefrontal cortex function in groove enjoyers

T Fukuie, K Suwabe, S Kawase, T Shimizu, G Ochi… - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Hearing a groove rhythm (GR), which creates the sensation of wanting to move to the music,
can also create feelings of pleasure and arousal in people, and it may enhance cognitive …

Syncopation affects free body-movement in musical groove

MAG Witek, T Popescu, EF Clarke, M Hansen… - Experimental brain …, 2017‏ - Springer
One of the most immediate and overt ways in which people respond to music is by moving
their bodies to the beat. However, the extent to which the rhythmic complexity of groove …

Preferences need inferences: Learning, valuation, and curiosity in aesthetic experience

S Van de Cruys, J Bervoets… - … international handbook of …, 2022‏ - taylorfrancis.com
In this chapter, we describe how the individual's active involvement with works of art
contributes to the experience of them. Based on a review of recent experimental work, we …

Understanding the relationship between catchiness and groove: a qualitative study with popular music creators

TA Bechtold, L Kilchenmann, B Curry… - Music Perception: An …, 2023‏ - online.ucpress.edu
Groove and catchiness are central properties of popular music that frequently appear
together. Yet, a possible relationship has neither been postulated nor examined. In music …

Groove rhythm enhances exercise impact on prefrontal cortex function in groove enjoyers

T Fukuie, K Suwabe, S Kawase, T Shimizu, G Ochi… - Neuroscience, 2023‏ - Elsevier
A positive affective response modulates the effects of aerobic exercise on prefrontal
executive function (EF). Groove rhythm (GR), eliciting the feeling of wanting to move to …

A critical cross-cultural study of sensorimotor and groove responses to syncopation among Ghanaian and American university students and staff

MAG Witek, J Liu, J Kuubertzie, AP Yankyera… - Music …, 2020‏ - online.ucpress.edu
The pleasurable desire to move to a beat is known as groove and is partly explained by
rhythmic syncopation. While many contemporary groove-directed genres originated in the …

A stimulus set of 40 popular music drum patterns with perceived complexity measures

O Senn, F Hoesl, R Jerjen, TA Bechtold… - Music & …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This study presents an audio stimulus set of 40 drum patterns from Western popular music
with empirical measurements of perceived complexity. The audio stimuli are meticulous …

Syncopation levels, but not movement, are associated with pleasantness while listening to rhythmic music

J Céspedes-Guevara, MAG Witek - Psychology of Music, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The effect of moving along to music on induced affect was investigated by asking two groups
of participants (N= 76) to listen to rhythmic patterns while either foot tap** along to the …