Joint action in a cooperative precision task: nested processes of intrapersonal and interpersonal coordination

Ramenzoni, Verónica C.; Davis, Tehran J.; Riley, Michael A.; Shockley, Kevin; Baker, Aimee A.

doi:10.1007/s00221-011-2653-8

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“…Previous studies in nonmusical domains indicated that the nature of a coordinative task can modulate interpersonal coordinative structure (e.g., ref. 51), which is consistent with our findings that the secretly assigned leader was more accurately identified for Baroque than Classical performances. Baseline body sway couplings without regard to leadership role were more equal across musician dyads for Baroque than Classical music (SI Results and Fig.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

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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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Body sway reflects leadership in joint music performance

Chang

Livingstone

Bosnyak

et al. 2017

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

128

140

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“…As mentioned before, the trajectories in hammering a chisel display lower variability than the movement of the single joints, at least in expert blacksmiths (Bernstein, 1967). Along similar lines, Ramenzoni et al, 2011Ramenzoni et al, , 2012 showed how this principle applies to interpersonal synergies. Participants involved in a joint coordinative tasks displayed a collective variability lower than the variability of their individual movements.…”

Section: Dimensional Compressionmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Since the initial observation, synergies have been identified on multiple levels of individual behavior (Fowler, 1980;Kelso, 1995). Analogously, in interactive, cooperative tasks, individuals have been found to couple and reciprocally constrain their movements reducing the overall control needed to maintain effective cooperation (Ramenzoni, Davis, Riley, Shockley, & Baker, 2011;Ramenzoni, Riley, Shockley, & Baker, 2012;Riley et al, 2011;Schmidt et al, 1990). In effect, individuals' behaviors become increasingly interdependent, so that a higher-level structure of the interaction emerges.…”

Section: Dialog As Synergymentioning

confidence: 99%

Dialog as interpersonal synergy

Fusaroli

Rączaszek-Leonardi

Tylén

2014

New Ideas in Psychology

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a b s t r a c tWhat is the proper unit of analysis in the psycholinguistics of dialog? While classical approaches are largely based on models of individual linguistic processing, recent advances stress the social coordinative nature of dialog. In the influential interactive alignment model, dialogue is thus approached as the progressive entrainment of interlocutors' linguistic behaviors toward the alignment of situation models. Still, the driving mechanisms are attributed to individual cognition in the form of automatic structural priming. Challenging these ideas, we outline a dynamical framework for studying dialog based on the notion of interpersonal synergy. Crucial to this synergetic model is the emphasis on dialog as an emergent, self-organizing, interpersonal system capable of functional coordination. A consequence of this model is that linguistic processes cannot be reduced to the workings of individual cognitive systems but must be approached also at the interpersonal level. From the synergy model follows a number of new predictions: beyond simple synchrony, good dialog affords complementary dynamics, constrained by contextual sensitivity and functional specificity. We substantiate our arguments by reference to recent empirical studies supporting the idea of dialog as interpersonal synergy.

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“…Rather, the behavior and actions of another hold immediate sway on how people respond to each other. Such direct couplings are possible through the interactive context by which individuals' processing capabilities are reshaped by the presence and actions of social partners (Ramenzoni, Davis, Riley, Shockley, & Baker, 2011;Riley, Richardson, Shockley, & Ramenzoni, 2011). Such connectivity allows for nimble social coordination that cannot be reduced to individual-level contributions, but instead must be evaluated on the basis of the social unit, where the emergence of meaning is reciprocally caused and maintained by social partners during interaction (Marsh et al, 2009).…”

Section: -Plm59c-9780124071872mentioning

confidence: 99%