Beat perception offers cognitive scientists an exciting opportunity to explore how cognition
and action are intertwined in the brain even in the absence of movement. Many believe the …

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 …

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 …

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 original edition of The Geometry of Musical Rhythm was the first book to provide a
systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the …

Rhythmic incongruity in the form of syncopation is a prominent feature of many
contemporary musical styles. Syncopations afford incongruity between rhythmic patterns …

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 …

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 …

Studies of rhythm processing and of reward have progressed separately, with little
connection between the two. However, consistent links between rhythm and reward are …

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 …