Expressive timing and interactional synchrony between mothers and infants: cultural similarities, cultural differences, and the immigration experience

A new methodological approach to nonverbal behavior analysis in cultural perspective

“…For instance, a cross-cultural comparative analysis of conversation highlighted how people from different cultures manage time in very different ways during the conversational stream (Grader, 2003).…”

The Cultural Organization of Attention

“…This disposition forms a basis for turn -taking: Masataka, for example, stresses the importance of sequentially dependent responding between Japanese caregivers and infants in social interaction, leading to conversational turn -taking as an early milestone, with coordination fi rst of infants ' suckling and mothers ' jiggling behavior followed by coordination of vocalization and gaze (Masataka 2003b : 44). The details of mother -infant coordination have been shown to be culturally variable (Gratier 2003 ;Gratier and Trevarthan 2008 ), but it is generally accepted that some form of interactive coordination occurs (see also Takada, this volume). This interdependence relies on the mother ' s attribution of intentionality to the infant ' s vocalizations, and response contingency, features that are clearly evident in data of American and Japanese interactions with infants.…”

Enacting teaching and learning in the interaction process: “Keys” for developing skills in piano lessons through four-hand improvisations

“…The stability of the pulsatile, rhythmical recurrences provides an attentional framework for the anticipation and coordination of activities (Large & Jones, 1999;Gratier & Apter-Danon, 2009). Early interactions are not metronomically regular though: timing deviations are observed (Gratier, 2003). These subtle variations are functional: they are expressive and stimulating, as they "vitalize" the contour of lived experiences whose meaning can then be shared with subtlety (Gratier & Apter-Danon, 2009;Stern, 1985).…”