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The Pleasurable Urge to Move to Music Through the Lens of Learning Progress
Interacting with music is a uniquely pleasurable activity that is ubiquitous across human cultures. Current theories suggest that a prominent driver of musical pleasure responses is the violation and confirmation of temporal predictions. For example, the pleasurable urge to move to music (PLUMM), wh...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10503533/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37720891 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.320 |
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author | Matthews, Tomas E. Stupacher, Jan Vuust, Peter |
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description | Interacting with music is a uniquely pleasurable activity that is ubiquitous across human cultures. Current theories suggest that a prominent driver of musical pleasure responses is the violation and confirmation of temporal predictions. For example, the pleasurable urge to move to music (PLUMM), which is associated with the broader concept of groove, is higher for moderately complex rhythms compared to simple and complex rhythms. This inverted U-shaped relation between PLUMM and rhythmic complexity is thought to result from a balance between predictability and uncertainty. That is, moderately complex rhythms lead to strongly weighted prediction errors which elicit an urge to move to reinforce the predictive model (i.e., the meter). However, the details of these processes and how they bring about positive affective responses are currently underspecified. We propose that the intrinsic motivation for learning progress drives PLUMM and informs the music humans choose to listen to, dance to, and create. Here, learning progress reflects the rate of prediction error minimization over time. Accordingly, reducible prediction errors signal the potential for learning progress, producing a pleasurable, curious state characterized by the mobilization of attentional and memory resources. We discuss this hypothesis in the context of current psychological and neuroscientific research on musical pleasure and PLUMM. We propose a theoretical neuroscientific model focusing on the roles of dopamine and norepinephrine within a feedback loop linking prediction-based learning, curiosity, and memory. This perspective provides testable predictions that will motivate future research to further illuminate the fundamental relation between predictions, movement, and reward. |
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spelling | pubmed-105035332023-09-16 The Pleasurable Urge to Move to Music Through the Lens of Learning Progress Matthews, Tomas E. Stupacher, Jan Vuust, Peter J Cogn Review Article Interacting with music is a uniquely pleasurable activity that is ubiquitous across human cultures. Current theories suggest that a prominent driver of musical pleasure responses is the violation and confirmation of temporal predictions. For example, the pleasurable urge to move to music (PLUMM), which is associated with the broader concept of groove, is higher for moderately complex rhythms compared to simple and complex rhythms. This inverted U-shaped relation between PLUMM and rhythmic complexity is thought to result from a balance between predictability and uncertainty. That is, moderately complex rhythms lead to strongly weighted prediction errors which elicit an urge to move to reinforce the predictive model (i.e., the meter). However, the details of these processes and how they bring about positive affective responses are currently underspecified. We propose that the intrinsic motivation for learning progress drives PLUMM and informs the music humans choose to listen to, dance to, and create. Here, learning progress reflects the rate of prediction error minimization over time. Accordingly, reducible prediction errors signal the potential for learning progress, producing a pleasurable, curious state characterized by the mobilization of attentional and memory resources. We discuss this hypothesis in the context of current psychological and neuroscientific research on musical pleasure and PLUMM. We propose a theoretical neuroscientific model focusing on the roles of dopamine and norepinephrine within a feedback loop linking prediction-based learning, curiosity, and memory. This perspective provides testable predictions that will motivate future research to further illuminate the fundamental relation between predictions, movement, and reward. Ubiquity Press 2023-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10503533/ /pubmed/37720891 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.320 Text en Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Matthews, Tomas E. Stupacher, Jan Vuust, Peter The Pleasurable Urge to Move to Music Through the Lens of Learning Progress |
title | The Pleasurable Urge to Move to Music Through the Lens of Learning Progress |
title_full | The Pleasurable Urge to Move to Music Through the Lens of Learning Progress |
title_fullStr | The Pleasurable Urge to Move to Music Through the Lens of Learning Progress |
title_full_unstemmed | The Pleasurable Urge to Move to Music Through the Lens of Learning Progress |
title_short | The Pleasurable Urge to Move to Music Through the Lens of Learning Progress |
title_sort | pleasurable urge to move to music through the lens of learning progress |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10503533/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37720891 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.320 |
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