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    Feeling groovy – microtiming in swing and funk

    Hello Dear Reader, Well, here we are in 2016! This blog enters its 6th year of existence and you and I continue to learn more and more about the wonderful world of music psychology. It makes me feel like having a little dance in celebration. And with that thought in mind, I turn to the new paper of interest for this blog. Microtiming in Swing and Funk affects the body movement behaviour of music expert listeners by Lorenz Kilchenmann and Olivier Senn, published August 2015 in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Lorenz and Olivier are colleagues of mine from the Hochschule Luzern in Switzerland. I was living in Luzern and…

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