Feb 11, 2025 07:45 PM
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1073343
INTRO: The pleasurable urge to move to music — to groove — appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally enjoy music, according to a new paper led by Concordia researchers. That groove response is so strong it is even found in people with musical anhedonia, those who take little or no pleasure from music.
The article’s lead author is Isaac Romkey, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology. He writes in the journal PLOS One that recent research shows the two aspects of groove, pleasure and urge to move, while usually closely correlated, may in fact be separable... (MORE - details, no ads)
INTRO: The pleasurable urge to move to music — to groove — appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally enjoy music, according to a new paper led by Concordia researchers. That groove response is so strong it is even found in people with musical anhedonia, those who take little or no pleasure from music.
The article’s lead author is Isaac Romkey, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology. He writes in the journal PLOS One that recent research shows the two aspects of groove, pleasure and urge to move, while usually closely correlated, may in fact be separable... (MORE - details, no ads)