Too late to coordinate: Contextual influences on behavioral synchrony

Miles, Lynden K.; Griffiths, Jordan L.; Richardson, Michael J.; Macrae, C. Neil

doi:10.1002/ejsp.721

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“…In various situations, it has been shown that contextual cues, such as scenes surrounding the action (Iacoboni et al, 2005), presence of another agent (Sebanz, Knoblich, & Prinz, 2005) or relation to another agent (Loula et al, 2005) may have an impact on the way actions are both perceived and performed. In addition, there is evidence that even brief episodes of interaction between participants, even in simple tasks, may have an impact on their feelings about an interacting confederate (Hove & Risen, 2009;Miles, Griffiths, Richardson, & Macrae, 2010). Although individuals may differ in their ways of expression and their perceptual sensitivities, consistencies in expression and subsequent consistencies in perception can reveal underlying principles and mechanisms on which interpersonal communication is based.…”

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Perceiving performer identity and intended expression intensity in point-light displays of dance

Sevdalis

Keller

2010

Psychological Research

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This study investigated agent and expression intensity recognition in point-light displays depicting dancing performances. In a first session, participants danced with two different expression intensities to music, solo or in dyads. In a subsequent session, they watched point-light displays of 1-5-s duration, depicting their own, their partner's or another participant's recorded actions, and were asked to identify the agent (self vs. partner vs. stranger) and the intended expression intensity (expressive vs. inexpressive) of the performer. The results indicate that performer identity and expression intensity could be discerned reliably from displays as short as 1 s. The accuracy in judgment increased with exposure duration and, for performer identification, with higher expression intensity. Judgment accuracy in agent and expression intensity recognition tasks correlated with self-report empathy indices. Accuracy correlated also with confidence in judgment, but only in the intensity recognition task. The results are discussed in relation to perceptual and neural mechanisms underlying action and intention recognition.

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Perceiving performer identity and intended expression intensity in point-light displays of dance

Sevdalis

Keller

2010

Psychological Research

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“…Social orientation and motivation are malleable and affect coordination. Relevant studies have found that interacting with a late-arriving partner reduced stepping synchronization, compared with interacting with a partner who arrived on time [119], and bodily synchrony decreased during arguments compared with affiliative conversations [120].…”

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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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“…Further evidence that complex brains are able to entrain to some stimuli but filter out others has come from the fact that humans are less likely to entrain a rhythmic behavior with a partner they don't like (Miles, Griffighs, Richardson, & Macrae, 2010), and that dolphins are more likely to synchronize during social than during nonsocial behaviors (Connor et al, 2006).…”

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Rhythmic entrainment: Why humans want to, fireflies can’t help it, pet birds try, and sea lions have to be bribed

2016

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Until recently, the literature on rhythmic ability took for granted that only humans are able to synchronize body movements to an external beat-to entrain. This assumption has been undercut by findings of beat-matching in various species of parrots and, more recently, in a sea lion, several species of primates, and possibly horses. This throws open the question of how widespread beat-matching ability is in the animal kingdom. Here we reassess the arguments and evidence for an absence of beat-matching in animals, and conclude that in fact no convincing case against beatmatching in animals has been made. Instead, such evidence as there is suggests that this capacity could be quite widespread. Furthermore, mutual entrainment of oscillations is a general principle of physical systems, both biological and nonbiological, suggesting that entrainment of motor systems by sensory systems may be a default rather than an oddity. The question then becomes, not why a few privileged species are able to beat-match, but why species do not always do sowhy they vary in both spontaneous and learned beatmatching. We propose that when entrainment is not driven by fixed, mandatory connections between input and output (as in the case of, e.g., fireflies entraining to each others' flashes), it depends on voluntary control over, and voluntary or learned coupling of, sensory and motor systems, which can paradoxically lead to apparent failures of entrainment. Among the factors that affect whether an animal will entrain are sufficient control over the motor behavior to be entrained, sufficient perceptual sophistication to extract the entraining beat from the overall sensory environment, and the current cognitive state of the animal, including attention and motivation. The extent of entrainment in the animal kingdom potentially has widespread implications, not only for understanding the roots of human dance, but also for understanding the neural and cognitive architectures of animals.

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Too late to coordinate: Contextual influences on behavioral synchrony

Cited by 152 publications

References 47 publications

Perceiving performer identity and intended expression intensity in point-light displays of dance

Perceiving performer identity and intended expression intensity in point-light displays of dance

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

Rhythmic entrainment: Why humans want to, fireflies can’t help it, pet birds try, and sea lions have to be bribed

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