Interactive rhythms across species: the evolutionary biology of animal chorusing and turn‐taking

Ravignani, Andrea; Verga, Laura; Greenfield, Michael D.

doi:10.1111/nyas.14230

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“…We thus strongly encourage future studies on interactive rhythmic behaviours in the hope of ultimately developing an integrative cross-species framework [4]. The comparative method could then provide crucial insights into the evolution and adaptive functions of interactive rhythmic behaviour across taxa [5,6].…”

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Rhythm in dyadic interactions

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Soma

Anichini

et al. 2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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This review paper discusses rhythmic interactions and distinguishes them from non-rhythmic interactions. We report on communicative behaviours in social and sexual contexts, as found in dyads of humans, non-human primates, non-primate mammals, birds, anurans and insects. We discuss observed instances of rhythm in dyadic interactions, identify knowledge gaps and propose suggestions for future research. We find that most studies on rhythmicity in interactive signals mainly focus on one modality (acoustic or visual) and we suggest more work should be performed on multimodal signals. Although the social functions of interactive rhythms have been fairly well described, developmental research on rhythms used to regulate social interactions is still lacking. Future work should also focus on identifying the exact timing mechanisms involved. Rhythmic signalling behaviours are widespread and critical in regulating social interactions across taxa, but many questions remain unexplored. A multidisciplinary, comparative cross-species approach may help provide answers. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology’.

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Rhythm in dyadic interactions

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Anichini

et al. 2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…[67][68][69] However, the current work supports the view that peripheral body movements may have served as a control parameter of an evolving vocal system. Previous work has proposed that the vocal system may have been evolutionarily exapted from rhythmic abilities in the locomotor domain, 70,71 and viewing upper limb movements as constraints on the vocal system's evolution fits neatly in such views. When our species became bipedal, the respiratory system was thereby liberated from upper limb locomotor perturbations.…”

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Gesture–speech physics in fluent speech and rhythmic upper limb movements

Pouw

Jonge-Hoekstra

Harrison

et al. 2020

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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It is commonly understood that hand gesture and speech coordination in humans is culturally and cognitively acquired, rather than having a biological basis. Recently, however, the biomechanical physical coupling of arm movements to speech vocalization has been studied in steady-state vocalization and monosyllabic utterances, where forces produced during gesturing are transferred onto the tensioned body, leading to changes in respiratory-related activity and thereby affecting vocalization F0 and intensity. In the current experiment (n = 37), we extend this previous line of work to show that gesture-speech physics also impacts fluent speech. Compared with nonmovement, participants who are producing fluent self-formulated speech while rhythmically moving their limbs demonstrate heightened F0 and amplitude envelope, and such effects are more pronounced for higher-impulse arm versus lowerimpulse wrist movement. We replicate that acoustic peaks arise especially during moments of peak impulse (i.e., the beat) of the movement, namely around deceleration phases of the movement. Finally, higher deceleration rates of higher-mass arm movements were related to higher peaks in acoustics. These results confirm a role for physical impulses of gesture affecting the speech system. We discuss the implications of gesture-speech physics for understanding of the emergence of communicative gesture, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

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“…However, the current work supports the view that peripheral body movements may have served as a control parameter of an evolving vocal system. Previous work has proposed that the vocal system may have been evolutionarily exapted from rhythmic abilities in the locomotor domain 68,69 , and viewing upper limb movements as constraints on the vocal system's evolution fits neatly in such views. When our species became bipedal, the respiratory system was thereby liberated from upper-limb locomotary perturbations.…”

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Gesture-speech physics in fluent speech and rhythmic upper limb movements

Pouw¹,

Jonge-Hoekstra²,

Harrison³

et al. 2020

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Communicative hand gestures are often coordinated with prosodic aspects of speech, and salient moments of gestural movement (e.g., quick changes in speed) often co-occur with salient moments in speech (e.g., near peaks in fundamental frequency and intensity). A common understanding is that such gesture and speech coordination is culturally and cognitively acquired, rather than having a biological basis. Recently, however, the biomechanical physical coupling of arm movements to speech movements has been identified as a potentially important factor in understanding the emergence of gesture-speech coordination. Specifically, in the case of steady-state vocalization and mono-syllable utterances, forces produced during gesturing are transferred onto the tensioned body, leading to changes in respiratory-related activity and thereby affecting vocalization F0 and intensity. In the current experiment (N = 37), we extend this previous line of work to show that gesture-speech physics impacts fluent speech, too. Compared with non-movement, participants who are producing fluent self-formulated speech, while rhythmically moving their limbs, demonstrate heightened F0 and amplitude envelope, and such effects are more pronounced for higher-impulse arm versus lower-impulse wrist movement. We replicate that acoustic peaks arise especially during moments of peak-impulse (i.e., the beat) of the movement, namely around deceleration phases of the movement. Finally, higher deceleration rates of higher-mass arm movements were related to higher peaks in acoustics. These results confirm a role for physical-impulses of gesture affecting the speech system. We discuss the implications of gesture-speech physics for understanding of the emergence of communicative gesture, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

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Interactive rhythms across species: the evolutionary biology of animal chorusing and turn‐taking

Cited by 36 publications

References 98 publications

Rhythm in dyadic interactions

Rhythm in dyadic interactions

Gesture–speech physics in fluent speech and rhythmic upper limb movements

Gesture-speech physics in fluent speech and rhythmic upper limb movements

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