... of electronic dance music (EDM). One hundred and seventy-nine participants listened to 20 novel house music clips in which basslines were manipulated across two levels of low-frequency amplitude and syncopation. Music and dance-related experience, as well as genre preferences, were also assessed. Groove...

... and production capacity: 1) expertise : music or dance, 2) training style : percussive or nonpercussive, 3) stimulus modality : auditory or visual, and 4) movement type : finger-tap or whole-body bounce. Experiment 1 examined how expertise and training style influenced beat perception and production performance...

...Emily Carlson; Birgitta Burger; Petri Toiviainen T he current study explores how individuals ' tendency to empathize with others (trait empathy) modulates interaction and social entrainment in dyadic dance in a free movement context using perceptual and computationally derived measures. Stimuli...

...Edith Van Dyck; Dirk Moelants; Michiel Demey; Alexander Deweppe; Pieter Coussement; Marc Leman The present study aims to gain better insight into the connection between music and dance by examining the dynamic effects of the bass drum on a dancing audience in a club-like environment. One hundred...

... conditioning dance Music is in the Muscle 297 Music Is in the Muscle: How Embodied Cognition May Influence Music Preferences Peter Sedlmeier and Oliver Weigelt Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany Eva Walther University of Trier, Trier, Germany music is intimately connected with body...

...Jessica Phillips-Silver; C. Athena Aktipis; Gregory A. Bryant Entrainment has been studied in a variety of contexts including music perception, dance, verbal communication, and motor coordination more generally. Here we seek to provide a unifying framework that incorporates the key aspects...

...Luiz Naveda; Marc Leman Spatiotemporal gestures in music and dance have been approached using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Applying quantitative methods has offered new perspectives but imposed several constraints such as artificial metric systems, weak links with qualitative...

...Marc Leman; Luiz Naveda The goal of the present study is to gain better insight into how dancers establish, through dancing, a spatiotemporal reference frame in synchrony with musical cues. With the aim of achieving this, repetitive dance patterns of samba and Charleston were recorded using a three...

...Guy Madison There is a quality of music that makes people tap their feet, rock their head, and get up and dance. The consistency of this experience among listeners was examined, in terms of differences in ratings across 64 music examples taken from commercially available recordings. Results show...