Complexity matching in dyadic conversation.

Abney, Drew H.; Paxton, Alexandra; Dale, Rick; Kello, Christopher T.

doi:10.1037/xge0000021

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“…Streeck et al 2011;Tschacher et al 2014;Konvalinka et al 2011;Abney et al 2014). These coordination patterns are part of how individual SM schemes are enacted.…”

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The sense of agency – a phenomenological consequence of enacting sensorimotor schemes

Bührmann

Paolo

2015

Phenom Cogn Sci

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The sensorimotor approach to perception addresses various aspects of perceptual experience, but not the subjectivity of intentional action. Conversely, the problem that current accounts of the sense of agency deal with is primarily one of subjectivity. But the proposed models, based on internal signal comparisons, arguably fail to make the transition from subpersonal computations to personal experience. In this paper we suggest an alternative direction towards explaining the sense of agency by braiding three theoretical strands: a world-involving, dynamical interpretation of the sensorimotor approach, an enactive description of sensorimotor agency as contrasted with organic agency in general, and a dynamical theory of equilibration within and between sensorimotor schemes. On this new account, the sense of oneself as the author of one's own actions corresponds to what we experience during the ongoing adventure of establishing, losing, and re-establishing meaningful interactions with the world. The meaningful relation between agent and world is given by the precarious constitution of sensorimotor agency as a self-asserting network of schemes and dispositions. Acts are owned as they adaptively assert the constitution of the agent. Thus, awareness for different aspects of agency experience, such as the initiation of action, the effort exerted in controlling it, or the achievement of the desired effect, can be accounted for by processes involved in maintaining the sensorimotor organization that enables these interactions with the world. We discuss these processes in detail from a non-representational, dynamical perspective and show how they cohere with the personal experience of agency.

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“…Streeck et al 2011;Tschacher et al 2014;Konvalinka et al 2011;Abney et al 2014). These coordination patterns are part of how individual SM schemes are enacted.…”

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The sense of agency – a phenomenological consequence of enacting sensorimotor schemes

Bührmann

Paolo

2015

Phenom Cogn Sci

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“…Because conversations are comprised of multiple scales and levels with coupling between these (Abney, Paxton, Dale, & Kello, 2014), it is possible that phase transitions may have cascading effects across modalities, and as such the examination of many modalities and their crossover effects may be worthwhile (Barbosa, D echaine, VatikiotisBateson, & Yehia, 2012;Gorman et al, 2016). The long-term goal of such a real-time identification of phase transitions is the design of interactive systems that can administer timely prompts to enhance human cognitive performance alone and in teams .…”

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Problem‐Solving Phase Transitions During Team Collaboration

2017

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Multiple theories of problem-solving hypothesize that there are distinct qualitative phases exhibited during effective problem-solving. However, limited research has attempted to identify when transitions between phases occur. We integrate theory on collaborative problem-solving (CPS) with dynamical systems theory suggesting that when a system is undergoing a phase transition it should exhibit a peak in entropy and that entropy levels should also relate to team performance. Communications from 40 teams that collaborated on a complex problem were coded for occurrence of problem-solving processes. We applied a sliding window entropy technique to each team's communications and specified criteria for (a) identifying data points that qualify as peaks and (b) determining which peaks were robust. We used multilevel modeling, and provide a qualitative example, to evaluate whether phases exhibit distinct distributions of communication processes. We also tested whether there was a relationship between entropy values at transition points and CPS performance. We found that a proportion of entropy peaks was robust and that the relative occurrence of communication codes varied significantly across phases. Peaks in entropy thus corresponded to qualitative shifts in teams' CPS communications, providing empirical evidence that teams exhibit phase transitions during CPS. Also, lower average levels of entropy at the phase transition points predicted better CPS performance. We specify future directions to improve understanding of phase transitions during CPS, and collaborative cognition, more broadly.

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“…Table 1 presents an analysis of methods employed in nearly three dozen published studies that have used shadowing or exposure tasks to assess phonetic convergence. Due to dramatic differences in purposes and methodologies that warrant a separate analysis, the table does not include studies that have examined convergence during conversational interaction (e.g., Abney, Paxton, Dale, & Kello, 2014;Aguilar et al, 2016;Dias & Rosenblum, 2011;Fusaroli & Tylén, 2016;Heldner, Edlund, & Hirschberg, 2010;Kim, Horton, & Bradlow, 2011;Levitan, Benus, Gravano, & Hirschberg, 2015;Levitan & Hirschberg, 2011;Louwerse, Dale, Bard, & Jeuniaux, 2012;Pardo, 2006;Pardo, Cajori Jay, et al, 2013;Pardo, Cajori Jay, & Krauss, 2010;Paxton & Dale, 2013) and under conditions related to longer-term exposure to other talkers, to second language training, or to different linguistic environments (e.g., Chang, 2012;Evans & Iverson, 2007;Harrington, 2006;Harrington, Palethorpe, & Watson, 2000;Pardo, Gibbons, Suppes, & Krauss, 2012;Sancier & Fowler, 1997). Arguably, laboratory speech-shadowing tasks provide a favorable context to elicit phonetic convergence and assess its basic properties (i.e., without interference from conversational goals).…”

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Phonetic convergence across multiple measures and model talkers

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Wilman

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This study consolidates findings on phonetic convergence in a large-scale examination of the impacts of talker sex, word frequency, and model talkers on multiple measures of convergence. A survey of nearly three dozen published reports revealed that most shadowing studies used very few model talkers and did not assess whether phonetic convergence varied across same-and mixed-sex pairings. Furthermore, some studies have reported effects of talker sex or word frequency on phonetic convergence, but others have failed to replicate these effects or have reported opposing patterns. In the present study, a set of 92 talkers (47 female) shadowed either same-sex or opposite-sex models (12 talkers, six female). Phonetic convergence was assessed in a holistic AXB perceptual-similarity task and in acoustic measures of duration, F0, F1, F2, and the F1 × F2 vowel space. Across these measures, convergence was subtle, variable, and inconsistent. There were no reliable main effects of talker sex or word frequency on any measures. However, female shadowers were more susceptible to lexical properties than were males, and model talkers elicited varying degrees of phonetic convergence. Mixed-effects regression models confirmed the complex relationships between acoustic and holistic perceptual measures of phonetic convergence. In order to draw broad conclusions about phonetic convergence, studies should employ multiple models and shadowers (both male and female), balanced multisyllabic items, and holistic measures. As a potential mechanism for sound change, phonetic convergence reflects complexities in speech perception and production that warrant elaboration of the underspecified components of current accounts.

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Complexity matching in dyadic conversation.

Cited by 156 publications

References 79 publications

The sense of agency – a phenomenological consequence of enacting sensorimotor schemes

The sense of agency – a phenomenological consequence of enacting sensorimotor schemes

Problem‐Solving Phase Transitions During Team Collaboration

Phonetic convergence across multiple measures and model talkers

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