Listening to groovy music is an enjoyable experience and a common human behavior in some cultures. Specifically, many listeners agree that songs they find to be more familiar and pleasurable are more likely to induce the experience of musical groove. While the pleasurable and dance-inducing effects of musical groove are omnipresent, we know less about how subjective feelings toward music, individual musical or dance experiences, or more objective musical perception abilities are correlated with the way we experience groove. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate how musical and dance sophistication relates to musical groove perception. One-hundred 24 participants completed an online study during which they rated 20 songs, considered high- or low-groove, and completed the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index, the Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index, the Beat and Meter Sensitivity Task, and a modified short version of the Profile for Music Perception Skills. Our results reveal that measures of perceptual abilities, musical training, and social dancing predicted the difference in groove rating between high- and low-groove music. Overall, these findings support the notion that listeners’ individual experiences and predispositions may shape their perception of musical groove, although other causal directions are also possible. This research helps elucidate the correlates and possible causes of musical groove perception in a wide range of listeners.

Listening to groovy music is an enjoyable experience and a common human behavior in some cultures. Specifically, many listeners agree that high-groove songs are more familiar and likable than low-groove songs. While the pleasurable and dance-inducing effects of musical groove is clearly omnipresent, we know less about how subjective feelings towards music, individual musical or dance experiences, or more objective musical perception abilities are correlated with the way we experience groove. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate how musical and dance sophistication relates to musical groove perception. One-hundred and twenty-four participants completed an online study during which they rated 20 songs, considered high or low groove, and completed the Goldsmith Musical Sophistication Index, the Goldsmith Dance Sophistication Index, the Beat and Meter Sensitivity Task, and a modified short version of the Profile for Music Perception Skills. Our results reveal that perceptual abilities, musical training, and body awareness predicted the difference in groove rating between high- and low-groove music. Overall, these findings support the notion that listeners’ individual experiences and predispositions may shape their perception of musical groove, although other causal directions are also possible. This research helps elucidate the correlates and possible causes of musical groove perception in a wide range of listeners.

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Introduction. During the fall semester of 1954 an experiment was conducted at Highland Park High School, Highland Park Independent School District, Dallas, Texas, to determine the comparative value in relation to the improvement of reading skills in a developmental reading program at the tenth grade level of (1) two types of mechanical devices (the Keystone Tachistoscope or the Renshaw individual Tachistoscope Trainer and the SRA Reading Accelerator), used individually or together as special reading aids; (2) direct approaches to reading skills other than mechanical devices; (3) a guided free reading program; and (4) a certain prescribed course of study.This article will discuss the implementation and results of the experiment with reference to the direct approaches to reading skills other than mechanical devices, the guided free reading program, and the prescribed course of study.Nature of subjects participating in this experiment. Highland Park High School serves two Dallas suburban cities, Highland Park and University Park, which are noted for their homes and churches, Southern Methodist University, and the high educational level of their adults (median, 13.55 grade). Most of these high school pupils are looking forward to entering college after high school graduation.The low sophomore class of Highland Park High School, numbering 290 pupils, participated in this experiment. These pupils registered for the subjects, teachers, and periods which they desired. At the time of registration they were informed that a variety of emphases would be placed upon reading skills in the English classes, but they were

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