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The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions
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 from rhythmic deviations, for example in the form of syncopation. The perfect balance between predictability and surpris...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9396343/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36017431 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.906190 |
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author | Stupacher, Jan Matthews, Tomas Edward Pando-Naude, Victor Foster Vander Elst, Olivia Vuust, Peter |
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description | 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 from rhythmic deviations, for example in the form of syncopation. The perfect balance between predictability and surprise is commonly found in rhythmic patterns with a moderate level of rhythmic complexity and represents the sweet spot of the groove experience. In contrast, rhythms with low or high complexity are usually associated with a weaker experience of groove because they are too boring to be engaging or too complex to be interpreted, respectively. Consequently, the relationship between rhythmic complexity and groove experience can be described by an inverted U-shaped function. We interpret this inverted U shape in light of the theory of predictive processing and provide perspectives on how rhythmic complexity and groove can help us to understand the underlying neural mechanisms linking temporal predictions, movement, and reward. A better understanding of these mechanisms can guide future approaches to improve treatments for patients with motor impairments, such as Parkinson’s disease, and to investigate prosocial aspects of interpersonal interactions that feature music, such as dancing. Finally, we present some open questions and ideas for future research. |
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spelling | pubmed-93963432022-08-24 The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions Stupacher, Jan Matthews, Tomas Edward Pando-Naude, Victor Foster Vander Elst, Olivia Vuust, Peter Front Psychol Psychology 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 from rhythmic deviations, for example in the form of syncopation. The perfect balance between predictability and surprise is commonly found in rhythmic patterns with a moderate level of rhythmic complexity and represents the sweet spot of the groove experience. In contrast, rhythms with low or high complexity are usually associated with a weaker experience of groove because they are too boring to be engaging or too complex to be interpreted, respectively. Consequently, the relationship between rhythmic complexity and groove experience can be described by an inverted U-shaped function. We interpret this inverted U shape in light of the theory of predictive processing and provide perspectives on how rhythmic complexity and groove can help us to understand the underlying neural mechanisms linking temporal predictions, movement, and reward. A better understanding of these mechanisms can guide future approaches to improve treatments for patients with motor impairments, such as Parkinson’s disease, and to investigate prosocial aspects of interpersonal interactions that feature music, such as dancing. Finally, we present some open questions and ideas for future research. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9396343/ /pubmed/36017431 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.906190 Text en Copyright © 2022 Stupacher, Matthews, Pando-Naude, Foster Vander Elst and Vuust. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Stupacher, Jan Matthews, Tomas Edward Pando-Naude, Victor Foster Vander Elst, Olivia Vuust, Peter The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions |
title | The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions |
title_full | The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions |
title_fullStr | The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions |
title_full_unstemmed | The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions |
title_short | The sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions |
title_sort | sweet spot between predictability and surprise: musical groove in brain, body, and social interactions |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9396343/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36017431 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.906190 |
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