Null effect of perceived drum pattern complexity on the experience of groove.

Abstract

There is a broad consensus in groove research that the experience of groove, understood as a pleasurable urge to move in response to music, is to some extent related to the complexity of the rhythm. Specifically, music with medium rhythmic complexity has been found to motivate greater urge to move compared to low or high complexity music (inverted-U hypothesis). Studies that confirmed the inverted-U hypothesis usually based their measure of complexity on the rhythmic phenomenon of syncopation, where rhythms with more and/or stronger syncopation are considered to be more complex than less synco

Abstract by Olivier Senn; Florian Hoesl; Toni Amadeus Bechtold; Lorenz Kilchenmann; Rafael Jerjen; Maria Witek, PLoS ONE (2024) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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