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SWSCmusic – by Stephen Beech Music makes people move – even when they don’t like it, according to new research. The pleasurable urge to move to music – “to groove” – appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally enjoy music, say scientists. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, found that the groove response is so strong it is even found in people with musical anhedonia – those who take little or no pleasure from music. Recent research shows the two aspects of groove, pleasure and the urge to move, while usually closely correlated,…