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 …

Groove, understood as an enjoyable compulsion to move to musical rhythms, typically varies
along an inverted U-curve with increasing rhythmic complexity (eg, syncopation, pickups) …

Interacting with music is a uniquely pleasurable activity that is ubiquitous across human
cultures. Current theories suggest that a prominent driver of musical pleasure responses is …

In music psychology, the experience of wanting to move in response to music is commonly
known as feeling the groove. According to the psychological model of musical groove by …

The endogenous opioid system has been implicated during experiences of pleasure (ie,
from food or sex). Music can elicit intense emotional and bodily sensations of pleasure …

Musical expertise improves the precision of timing perception and performance–but is this
expertise generic, or is it tied to the specific style (s) and genre (s) of one's musical training …

This study reports on an experiment that tested whether drummers systematically
manipulated not only onset but also duration and/or intensity of strokes in order to achieve …

Researchers have argued that temporal microdeviations from the metric grid, such as those
produced by musicians in performance, are crucial to making a musical rhythm groovy and …

The ability to perceive the beat in music is crucial for both music listeners and players with
expert musicians being notably skilled at noticing fine deviations in the beat. However, it is …

Attention is not constant but rather fluctuates over time and these attentional fluctuations may
prioritize the processing of certain events over others. In music listening, the pleasurable …