The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions

A brief and efficient stimulus set to create the inverted U-shaped relationship between rhythmic complexity and the sensation of groove

(2022) Jan Stupacher et al.   PLoS One

Liking as a balance between synchronization, complexity and novelty

(2022) Inbal Ravreby et al.   Scientific Reports

Perceived Motor Synchrony With the Beat is More Strongly Related to Groove Than Measured Synchrony

(2022) Tomas E. Matthews et al.   MUSIC PERCEPTION

Rhythm and groove as cognitive mechanisms of dance intervention in Parkinson’s disease

(2021) Anna Krotinger et al.   PLoS One

Expectancy-based rhythmic entrainment as continuous Bayesian inference

(2021) Jonathan Cannon   PLoS Computational Biology

Sweet anticipation and positive emotions in music, groove, and dance

(2021) Olivia Foster Vander Elst et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

An ALE meta-analytic review of top-down and bottom-up processing of music in the brain

(2021) Victor Pando-Naude et al.   Scientific Reports

Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music

(2021) Jan Stupacher et al.   Psychology of Music

The sensation of groove engages motor and reward networks

(2020) Tomas E. Matthews et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Cultural Familiarity and Individual Musical Taste Differently Affect Social Bonding when Moving to Music

(2020) Jan Stupacher et al.   Scientific Reports

A coordinate-based meta-analysis of music-evoked emotions

(2020) Stefan Koelsch   NEUROIMAGE

The sensation of groove is affected by the interaction of rhythmic and harmonic complexity

(2019) Tomas E. Matthews et al.   PLoS One

Surprise-Related Activation in the Nucleus Accumbens Interacts with Music-Induced Pleasantness

(2019) Ofir Shany et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Musical reward prediction errors engage the nucleus accumbens and motivate learning

(2019) Benjamin P. Gold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Where is the beat in that note? Effects of attack, duration, and frequency on the perceived timing of musical and quasi-musical sounds.

(2019) Anne Danielsen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Believing in dopamine

(2019) Samuel J. Gershman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The descending motor tracts are different in dancers and musicians

(2019) Chiara Giacosa et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Predictability and Uncertainty in the Pleasure of Music: A Reward for Learning?

(2019) Benjamin P. Gold et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Uncertainty and Surprise Jointly Predict Musical Pleasure and Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Auditory Cortex Activity

(2019) Vincent K.M. Cheung et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Now you hear it: a predictive coding model for understanding rhythmic incongruity

(2018) Peter Vuust et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Cognitive effects of rhythmic auditory stimulation in Parkinson’s disease: A P300 study

(2018) Juan Lei et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Interoceptive inference: From computational neuroscience to clinic

(2018) Andrew P. Owens et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Groove in drum patterns as a function of both rhythmic properties and listeners’ attitudes

(2018) Olivier Senn et al.   PLoS One

Proactive Sensing of Periodic and Aperiodic Auditory Patterns

(2018) Johanna M. Rimmele et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Towards a neuroscience of active sampling and curiosity

(2018) Jacqueline Gottlieb et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Predictive Processes and the Peculiar Case of Music

(2018) Stefan Koelsch et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Rapid partner switching may facilitate increased broadcast group size in dance compared with conversation groups

(2017) Cole Robertson et al.   ETHOLOGY

Commentary: Predictions and the brain: how musical sounds become rewarding

(2017) Niels Chr. Hansen et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Motor origin of temporal predictions in auditory attention

(2017) Benjamin Morillon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gait improvement via rhythmic stimulation in Parkinson’s disease is linked to rhythmic skills

(2017) Simone Dalla Bella et al.   Scientific Reports

Synchrony as an Adaptive Mechanism for Large-Scale Human Social Bonding

(2016) Jacques Launay et al.   ETHOLOGY

Dance, Music, Meter and Groove: A Forgotten Partnership

(2016) W. Tecumseh Fitch   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Dance and music training have different effects on white matter diffusivity in sensorimotor pathways

(2016) Chiara Giacosa et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Effects of Physical Rehabilitation Integrated with Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation on Spatio-Temporal and Kinematic Parameters of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease

(2016) Massimiliano Pau et al.   Frontiers in Neurology

Effects of musically cued gait training in Parkinson's disease: beyond a motor benefit

(2015) Simone Dalla Bella et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Synchrony and exertion during dance independently raise pain threshold and encourage social bonding

(2015) Bronwyn Tarr et al.   Biology Letters

The Psychology and Neuroscience of Curiosity

(2015) Celeste Kidd et al.   NEURON

The origins of music in auditory scene analysis and the roles of evolution and culture in musical creation

(2015) L. J. Trainor   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predictions and the brain: how musical sounds become rewarding

(2015) Valorie N. Salimpoor et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Sensorimotor integration is enhanced in dancers and musicians

(2015) Falisha J. Karpati et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions

(2014) Stefan Koelsch   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The anatomy of choice: dopamine and decision-making

(2014) K. Friston et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Syncopation, Body-Movement and Pleasure in Groove Music

(2014) Maria A. G. Witek et al.   PLoS One

Musical groove modulates motor cortex excitability: A TMS investigation

(2013) Jan Stupacher et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Processing of hierarchical syntactic structure in music

(2013) S. Koelsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interactions Between the Nucleus Accumbens and Auditory Cortices Predict Music Reward Value

(2013) V. N. Salimpoor et al.   SCIENCE

The dynamic audio-motor system in pianists

(2012) Lutz Jäncke   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Interacting Cortical and Basal Ganglia Networks Underlying Finding and Tapping to the Musical Beat

(2012) Shu-Jen Kung et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music

(2011) Valorie N Salimpoor et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The impact of basal ganglia lesions on sensorimotor synchronization, spontaneous motor tempo, and the detection of tempo changes

(2010) Michael Schwartze et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Towards a neural basis of music-evoked emotions

(2010) Stefan Koelsch   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Formal Theory of Creativity, Fun, and Intrinsic Motivation (1990–2010)

(2010) Jürgen Schmidhuber   IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Feeling the Beat: Premotor and Striatal Interactions in Musicians and Nonmusicians during Beat Perception

(2009) J. A. Grahn et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Listening to Musical Rhythms Recruits Motor Regions of the Brain

(2008) J. L. Chen et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Predictive coding of music – Brain responses to rhythmic incongruity

(2008) Peter Vuust et al.   CORTEX

On the role and origin of isochrony in human rhythmic entrainment

(2008) Bjorn H. Merker et al.   CORTEX

Listening to rhythms activates motor and premotor cortices

(2008) Sara L. Bengtsson et al.   CORTEX

Functional organization of the basal ganglia: Therapeutic implications for Parkinson's disease

(2008) Jose A. Obeso et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS