Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable
experience, moving us both physically and emotionally—and learning to play music shapes …

When listening to music, we naturally move our bodies rhythmically to the beat, which can
be pleasurable and difficult to resist. This pleasurable sensation of wanting to move the body …

The sensation of groove has been defined as the pleasurable desire to move to music,
suggesting that both motor timing and reward processes are involved in this experience …

Groove—defined as the pleasurable urge to move to a rhythm—depends on a fine-tuned
interplay between predictability arising from repetitive rhythmic patterns, and surprise arising …

Why do humans spontaneously dance to music? To test the hypothesis that motor dynamics
reflect predictive timing during music listening, we created melodies with varying degrees of …

The pleasurable desire to move to music, also known as groove, is modulated by rhythmic
complexity. How the sensation of groove is influenced by other musical features, such as the …

Psychological and aesthetic theories predict that music is appreciated at optimal, peak
levels of familiarity and complexity, and that appreciation of music exhibits an inverted U …

The experience of groove is associated with the urge to move to a musical rhythm. Here we
focus on the relevance of audio features, obtained using music information retrieval (MIR) …

What is it about groove in music that makes people move? And what explains the physical
pleasure listeners and dancers experience as they synchronise their bodies to the beat? In …

When listening to music, we often feel a strong desire to move our body in relation to the
pulse of the rhythm. In music psychology, this desire to move is described by the term …