Social postural coordination.

Varlet, Manuel; Marín, Ludovic; Lagarde, Julien; Bardy, Benoît G.

doi:10.1037/a0020552

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“…Relatively less stable phase relations (e.g., irrational phase relations; Treffner & Turvey, 1993) might, therefore, be expected to be more conducive to communication compared with relations that are highly stable. This pattern of results would suggest that communication constraints may result in distributions of coordinative modes that are qualitatively different than those that arise in a similar task that imposes only visual constraints, given that previous research has demonstrated an influence of visual coupling on spontaneous interpersonal coordination on postural sway in an upright stance in the direction of stable modes (e.g., in-phase coordination, Varlet, Marin, Lagarde, & Bardy, 2011). It should be noted that the proposed method is a slightly alternative formulation of the embodiment hypothesis compared with frameworks that suggest a nonarbitrary relation between body configurations and mental states (Barsalou, 2008;Niedenthal, 2007).…”

Section: Relationships Among Movement Coordination and Communicationmentioning

confidence: 93%

Movement constraints on interpersonal coordination and communication.

Tolston

Shockley

Riley

et al. 2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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The present study investigated how constraining movement affects interpersonal coordination and joint cognitive performance. Pairs of participants worked cooperatively to solve picture-puzzle tasks in which they conversed to identify differences between pictures in 3 degree-of-constraint conditions: both participants were free to move their hands (free-free; FF); both participants’ hands were restrained (restrained-restrained; RR); and the hands of 1 participant were free while the hands of the other participant were restrained (free-restrained; FR). Eye tracking data were collected, and movement was measured at the waist, hand, and head. Data were analyzed using Cross-Recurrence Quantification Analysis (CRQ). Postural sway coordination, gaze coordination, and task performance were predicted to be highest in FF, followed by RR, and then by FR. Results showed the asymmetric FR condition generally exhibited lesser degrees of coordination than the symmetric Conditions FF and RR, and that the patterning of coordination in the symmetric conditions varied across the measured body segments. These results demonstrate that movement restraints affect not only interpersonal postural coordination, but also joint attention. Additionally, significant positive relationships were found between task performance and total amount of anterior-posterior movement measured at the head, hand and waist; number of utterances; and number of differences pairs found in the puzzles. These findings indicate a relationship between movement and task performance consistent with the hypotheses that both interpersonal coordination and cognitive performance are sensitive to local action constraints.

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Section: Relationships Among Movement Coordination and Communicationmentioning

confidence: 93%

Movement constraints on interpersonal coordination and communication.

Tolston

Shockley

Riley

et al. 2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…Even when visual information is not directly relevant, visual cues can improve interpersonal coordination (14,(40)(41)(42). In piano duos, being able to see the other performer increases temporal synchrony (31).…”

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Body sway reflects leadership in joint music performance

Chang

Livingstone

Bosnyak

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The cultural and technological achievements of the human species depend on complex social interactions. Nonverbal interpersonal coordination, or joint action, is a crucial element of social interaction, but the dynamics of nonverbal information flow among people are not well understood. We used joint music making in string quartets, a complex, naturalistic nonverbal behavior, as a model system. Using motion capture, we recorded body sway simultaneously in four musicians, which reflected real-time interpersonal information sharing. We used Granger causality to analyze predictive relationships among the motion time series of the players to determine the magnitude and direction of information flow among the players. We experimentally manipulated which musician was the leader (followers were not informed who was leading) and whether they could see each other, to investigate how these variables affect information flow. We found that assigned leaders exerted significantly greater influence on others and were less influenced by others compared with followers. This effect was present, whether or not they could see each other, but was enhanced with visual information, indicating that visual as well as auditory information is used in musical coordination. Importantly, performers' ratings of the "goodness" of their performances were positively correlated with the overall degree of body sway coupling, indicating that communication through body sway reflects perceived performance success. These results confirm that information sharing in a nonverbal joint action task occurs through both auditory and visual cues and that the dynamics of information flow are affected by changing group relationships.leadership | joint action | music performance | body sway | Granger causality C oordinating actions with others in time and space-joint action-is essential for daily life. From opening a door for someone to conducting an orchestra, periods of attentional and physical synchrony are required to achieve a shared goal. Humans have been shaped by evolution to engage in a high level of social interaction, reflected in high perceptual sensitivity to communicative features in voices and faces, the ability to understand the thoughts and beliefs of others, sensitivity to joint attention, and the ability to coordinate goal-directed actions with others (1-3). The social importance of joint action is demonstrated in that simply moving in synchrony with another increases interpersonal affiliation, trust, and/or cooperative behavior in infants and adults (e.g., refs. 4-9). The temporal predictability of music provides an ideal framework for achieving such synchronous movement, and it has been hypothesized that musical behavior evolved and remains adaptive today because it promotes cooperative social interaction and joint action (10-12). Indeed music is used in important situations where the goal is for people to feel a social bond, such as at religious ceremonies, weddings, funerals, parties, sporting events, political rallies, and in the military...

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“…The first issue relates to deciphering the specific information which is mediated by the coupling between individual’s movements. When one’s actions are determined by what he/she feels, hears or sees another person or a group of other person’s movements, is the information preferentially picked up specific to: single joint, pattern between joints, or end-effector (Varlet et al, 2011)? Second and related topic relates to the sensory modalities through which this coupling may be conveyed.…”

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Challenges for the understanding of the dynamics of social coordination

Lagarde

2013

Front. Neurorobot.

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The way people interact can be examined by looking at the way they move relative to each other. Seeking the principles behind those interactions have consequences potentially related to any type of interpersonal function, far beyond the so-called “motor” processes typically associated with the study of movements, be it perceptive, cognitive, affective, pragmatic, or epistemic. Here, we present the way the framework of coordination dynamics define and addresses the interactive actions in a dyad. We first introduce the basics of pattern formation as the roots of the theoretical approach of coordination dynamics, and then the way this framework may contribute to establish a solution to classify behaviors. Thereafter we review promising empirical results on the dynamics of interpersonal coordination, and finally discuss were to go next to decipher the way the coordination between two people and the way each individual contribute may be disentangled.

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Social postural coordination.

Cited by 78 publications

References 45 publications

Movement constraints on interpersonal coordination and communication.

Movement constraints on interpersonal coordination and communication.

Body sway reflects leadership in joint music performance

Challenges for the understanding of the dynamics of social coordination

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