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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Etani, Takahide
• Miura, Akito
• Kawase, Satoshi
• Fujii, Shinya
• Keller, Peter E.
• Vuust, Peter
• Kudo, Kazutoshi

Titel

A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove

Ist Teil von

• Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2024-03, Vol.158, p.105522-105522, Article 105522

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 to music has been called "groove." Following pioneering humanities research, psychological and neuroscientific studies have provided insights on associated musical features, behavioral responses, phenomenological aspects, and brain structural and functional correlates of the groove experience. Groove research has advanced the field of music science and more generally informed our understanding of bidirectional links between perception and action, and the role of the motor system in prediction. Activity in motor and reward-related brain networks during music listening is associated with the groove experience, and this neural activity is linked to temporal prediction and learning. This article reviews research on groove as a psychological phenomenon with neurophysiological correlates that link musical rhythm perception, sensorimotor prediction, and reward processing. Promising future research directions range from elucidating specific neural mechanisms to exploring clinical applications and socio-cultural implications of groove. •Moving the body to music is an activity that is universal and ancient.•The pleasurable sensation of wanting to move to music is called groove.•We review work on related musical features and psycho-neurophysiological processes.•Open questions and future directions in empirical groove research are discussed.