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groove: a standalone construct

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groove1 CONSTRUCTGroove (feel)JANATA · THE GROOVE

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Music psychology

The rhythmic feel that makes you move

In the psychology of music, groove is the quality of a performance that induces a pleasurable urge to move with it, bound up with rhythmic feel, timing, and the 'pocket' of a steady beat. Janata, Tomic, and Haberman studied groove as sensorimotor coupling, finding that stronger groove ratings go with a greater tendency to move in time. The referent is a felt, movement-inducing property of rhythmic music, read from ratings and movement synchrony. It is distinct from a record's channel or a bone's furrow that carry the same name.[1]

Unit
The movement-inducing rhythmic feel of a performance
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Gauged by listener ratings of the urge to move and by the degree of sensorimotor synchronisation to the beat

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References

  1. Janata, P., Tomic, S. T., & Haberman, J. M. (2012). Sensorimotor coupling in music and the psychology of the groove. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(1), 54–75. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024208

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