Rhythmicity permeates large parts of human experience. Humans generate various motor
and brain rhythms spanning a range of frequencies. We also experience and synchronize to …

The human capacity to synchronize movements to an auditory beat is central to musical
behaviour and to debates over the evolution of human musicality. Have humans evolved …

A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective
processes underlying interactions with music. The expressive moment is that point in time …

A live music concert is a pleasurable social event that is among the most visceral and
memorable forms of musical engagement. But what inspires listeners to attend concerts …

One especially important feature of metrical music is that it contains periodicities that
listeners' bodily rhythms can adapt to. Recent psychological frameworks have introduced the …

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 …

Over the past decade, embodied music cognition has become an influential paradigm in
music research. The paradigm holds that music cognition is strongly determined by …

The regularity of musical beat makes it a powerful stimulus promoting movement synchrony
among people. Synchrony can increase interpersonal trust, affiliation, and cooperation …

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 …

Most music is temporally organized within a metrical hierarchy, having nested periodic
patterns that give rise to the experience of stronger (downbeat) and weaker (upbeat) events …