Social Connection Through Joint Action and Interpersonal Coordination

Marsh, Kerry L.; Richardson, Michael J.; Schmidt, R. C.

doi:10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01022.x

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“…In a rocking chair study, pairs of participants, who directed their attention to their partner, coordinated more and perceived a greater sense of 'team-ness' than pairs who stared straight ahead. These studies provide support for synchrony as the basis of sociality [122]. From this dynamic perspective, interpersonal coordination and its effects emerge spontaneously in social interaction (for reviews, see [122,131,132]), providing a foundation upon which complex and rewarding patterns of intentional coordination can be built in musical contexts.…”

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Rhythm in joint action: psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms for real-time interpersonal coordination

Keller

Novembre

Hove

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Human interaction often requires simultaneous precision and flexibility in the coordination of rhythmic behaviour between individuals engaged in joint activity, for example, playing a musical duet or dancing with a partner. This review article addresses the psychological processes and brain mechanisms that enable such rhythmic interpersonal coordination. First, an overview is given of research on the cognitive-motor processes that enable individuals to represent joint action goals and to anticipate, attend and adapt to other's actions in real time. Second, the neurophysiological mechanisms that underpin rhythmic interpersonal coordination are sought in studies of sensorimotor and cognitive processes that play a role in the representation and integration of self- and other-related actions within and between individuals' brains. Finally, relationships between social–psychological factors and rhythmic interpersonal coordination are considered from two perspectives, one concerning how social-cognitive tendencies (e.g. empathy) affect coordination, and the other concerning how coordination affects interpersonal affiliation, trust and prosocial behaviour. Our review highlights musical ensemble performance as an ecologically valid yet readily controlled domain for investigating rhythm in joint action.

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Section: (B) Social Consequences Of Interpersonal Coordinationmentioning

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“…In a series of studies, Marsh et al [122] showed the importance of synchrony for promoting social cohesion. Interactions with more synchronous movement (in a pendulum swinging task) were rated as friendlier and more harmonious.…”

Section: (B) Social Consequences Of Interpersonal Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhythm in joint action: psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms for real-time interpersonal coordination

Keller

Novembre

Hove

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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322

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“…A growing body of evidence shows links between fluent interpersonal coordination and affiliation, both in children [4,5] and adults (see [6] for a review). More specifically, smooth action coordination between people makes them feel more connected to each other [7,8].…”

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Planning my actions to accommodate yours: joint action development during early childhood

Meyer

Wel

Hunnius

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 15 to a theme issue 'Attending to and neglecting people'. The planning and adjusting of one's actions in relation to an action partner is fundamental to smooth joint action. During their first years of life, children gradually become more engaged in joint actions. Here, we investigated whether and at what age children take their partner into account in their action plans to accommodate the other's actions. We focused on children's proactive planning (without prior experience) and flexible adjustment of action plans over time. In a behavioural study, we tested 96 children from four age groups (2 1 2 , 3, 3 1 2 and 5 years) in a joint cup-stacking task. Children passed cups to their partner who had only one hand available (alternating over time) to build a tower. Children's response choices were assessed (i.e. passing the cup on the free or occupied side to their partner). The study yielded two major findings. At all ages, children proactively planned their actions in a way that accommodated their partner's actions. However, only by 3 1 2 years did children start to flexibly integrate their partner into their action plans. Even at age 5, children only showed minimal adjustments to their action partner. Candidate processes underlying these developmental changes (e.g. inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, perspective taking) are discussed.

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“…Based on the principles of economy of action and load sharing, one can reason that individuals acting in concert, synergistically, create a new perception-action system that cannot be decomposed into its individual parts (see e.g., Marsh et al, 2006; see also Marsh et al, 2009). As Marsh et al (2006, p. 20) note this creates a new unit of perception-action coupling.…”

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Toward a Radically Embodied Neuroscience of Attachment and Relationships?

2014

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Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969(Bowlby, /1982 posits the existence of internal working models as a foundational feature of human bonds. Radical embodied approaches instead suggest that cognition requires no computation or representation, favoring a cognition situated in a body in an environmental context with affordances for action (Chemero, 2009;Barrett, 2011;Wilson and Golonka, 2013;Casasanto and Lupyan, 2015). We explore whether embodied approaches to social soothing, interpersonal warmth, separation distress, and support seeking could replace representational constructs such as internal working models with a view of relationship cognition anchored in the resources afforded to the individual by their brain, body, and environment in interaction. We review the neurobiological bases for social attachments and relationships and attempt to delineate how these systems overlap or don't with more basic physiological systems in ways that support or contradict a radical embodied explanation. We suggest that many effects might be the result of the fact that relationship cognition depends on and emerges out of the action of neural systems that regulate several clearly physically grounded systems. For example, the neuropeptide oxytocin appears to be central to attachment and pair-bond behavior (Carter and Keverne, 2002) and is implicated in social thermoregulation more broadly, being necessary for maintaining a warm body temperature (for a review, see IJzerman et al., 2015b). Finally, we discuss the most challenging issues around taking a radically embodied perspective on social relationships. We find the most crucial challenge in individual differences in support seeking and responses to social contact, which have long been thought to be a function of representational structures in the mind (e.g., Baldwin, 1995). Together we entertain the thought to explain such individual differences without mediating representations or computations, but in the end propose a hybrid model of radical embodiment and internal representations.

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Social Connection Through Joint Action and Interpersonal Coordination

Cited by 457 publications

References 70 publications

Rhythm in joint action: psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms for real-time interpersonal coordination

Rhythm in joint action: psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms for real-time interpersonal coordination

Planning my actions to accommodate yours: joint action development during early childhood

Toward a Radically Embodied Neuroscience of Attachment and Relationships?

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