Participants in a musical-perception study assigned high groove ratings (defined as the degree to which one wants to move to a song) to Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Boogie Wonderland.” In another study, participants assigned similarly high groove ratings to the Brazilian samba song “Desafinado.” If, as some contend, the human experience of groove depends on the ability to “find the pulse” (intuit the regular underlying rhythm) of a song, that would suggest that participants in these two studies tended to
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perceive their respective songs as rhythmically complex.
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find the pulses of their respective songs easily.
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experience little desire to move to their respective songs.
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rate the pulses of their respective songs rather than the grooves.