A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove

T Etani, A Miura, S Kawase, S Fujii, PE Keller… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

An SEM approach to validating the psychological model of musical groove.

O Senn, T Bechtold, F Hoesl, R Jerjen… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Aesthetics of musical timing: Culture and expertise affect preferences for isochrony but not synchrony

K Jakubowski, R Polak, M Rocamora, L Jure, N Jacoby - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Expressive communication in the arts often involves deviations from stylistic norms, which
can increase the aesthetic evaluation of an artwork or performance. The detection and …

The perceived catchiness of music affects the experience of groove

TA Bechtold, B Curry, M Witek - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Catchiness and groove are common phenomena when listening to popular music.
Catchiness may be a potential factor for experiencing groove but quantitative evidence for …

A grid in flux: Sound and timing in Electronic Dance Music

R Brøvig-Hanssen, B Sandvik… - Music Theory …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Shaping rhythm: Timing and sound in five groove-based genres

A Danielsen, M Johansson, R Brøvig, B Sandvik… - Popular …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Shaping events at the microlevel of rhythm is an important aspect of many groove-based
musics. In the present study, we explore the interconnectedness of musical parameters such …

Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance

MR Haugen, GS Câmara, K Nymoen… - Musicae …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Body movements play a crucial role in music performance and perception, and they do so
well beyond those devoted to sound production itself. Various movements related to the …

There's more to timing than time: Investigating musical microrhythm across disciplines and cultures

A Danielsen, R Brøvig, KK Bøhler… - Music Perception: An …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
The TIME project: Timing and Sound in Musical Microrhythm (2017–2022) studied
microrhythm; that is, how dynamic envelope, timbre, and center frequency, as well as the …

Drumming action and perception: how the movements of a professional drummer influence experiences of tempo, time, and expressivity

B Burger, C Wöllner - Music & Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study approached drumming motion from a three-fold perspective:
computational movement feature analysis, perceptual evaluations of movement animations …

Bins, Spans, and Tolerance: Three Theories of Microtiming Behavior

A Danielsen, M Johansson, C Stover - Music Theory Spectrum, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This study compares three recent theories of expressive microtiming in music. While each
theory was originally designed to engage a particular musical genre—Anne Danielsen's …