Neurobiological Approaches to Interpersonal Coordination: Achievements and Pitfalls

Cornejo, Carlos; Cuadros, Zamara; Morales, Ricardo

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“…In some cases, experimental designs involve interactional situations that are distant from real social life (Musa et al, 2015; Cornejo et al, 2017a,b). Recent naturalistic and semi-naturalistic research framing coordination in conversational contexts seems to face this challenge.…”

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“…Although the empirical evidence has provided relevant knowledge about the close and bidirectional relation between body coordination and social-affective ties, ecological validity has not always been addressed. In some cases, experimental designs involve interactional situations that are distant from real social life (Musa et al, 2015 ; Cornejo et al, 2017a , b ). Recent naturalistic and semi-naturalistic research framing coordination in conversational contexts seems to face this challenge.…”

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Dynamics of Simultaneous and Imitative Bodily Coordination in Trust and Distrust

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Body synchronization between interacting people involves coordinative movements in time, space and form. The introduction of newer technologies for automated video analysis and motion tracking has considerably improved the accurate measurement of coordination, particularly in temporal and spatial terms. However, the form of interpersonal coordination has been less explored. In the present study we address this gap by exploring the effect of trust on temporal and morphological patterns of interpersonal coordination. We adapted an optical motion-capture system to record spontaneous body movements in pairs of individuals engaged in natural conversations. We conducted two experiments in which we manipulated trust through a breach of expectancy (Study 1: 10 trustful and 10 distrustful participants) and friendship (Study 2: 20 dyads of friends and 20 dyads of strangers). In Study 1, results show the participants' strong, early mirror-like coordination in response to the confederates' breach of trust. In Study 2, imitative coordination tended to be more pronounced in pairs of friends than in pairs of non-friends. Overall, our results show not only that listeners move in reaction to speakers, but also that speakers react to listeners with a chain of dynamic coordination patterns affected by the immediate disposition of, and long-term relationship with, their interlocutors.

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“…This approach would instead point out that the flow of the interaction changes along its course, emphasizing the variability of coordination. These fluctuations should not be unexpected since natural human movements are continuously co-adapting to those of others during social interactions ( Boker et al, 2002 ; Ramseyer and Tschacher, 2011 ; Cornejo et al, 2017b ). Evidence from studies tracking movements in ecologically-sound settings has reported changes in coordination patterns between adults and in infant-adult interactions within brief spans of time (between 800 ms and 1,000 ms) similar to those found in this study ( Cornejo et al, 2018 ).…”

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Spontaneous bodily coordination varies across affective and intellectual child-adult interactions

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Cuadros,

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et al. 2024

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Research on child-adult interactions has identified that the morphology of bodily coordination seems to be sensitive to age and type of interaction. Mirror-like imitation emerges earlier in life and is more common during emotionally laden interactions, while anatomical imitation is acquired later and associated with cognitive tasks. However, it remains unclear whether these morphologies also vary with age and type of interaction during spontaneous coordination. Here we report a motion capture study comparing the spontaneous coordination patterns of thirty-five 3-year-old (20 girls; Mage = 3.15 years) and forty 6-year-old children (20 girls; Mage = 6.13 years) interacting with unacquainted adults during two storytelling sessions. The stories narrated the search of a character for her mother (Predominantly Affective Condition) or an object (Predominantly Intellectual Condition) inside a supermarket. Results show that children of both ages consistently coordinated their spontaneous movements towards adult storytellers, both in symmetric and asymmetric ways. However, symmetric coordination was more prominent in 3-year-old children and during predominantly emotional interactions, whereas asymmetric coordination prevailed in 6-year-old children and during predominantly intellectual interactions. These results add evidence from spontaneous interactions in favor of the hypothesis that symmetric coordination is associated with affective interactions and asymmetric coordination with intellectual ones.

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“…The differences found at zero-lag on spontaneous and nonspontaneous synchrony accurately measured seem to add evidence to the hypothesis that coordination in natural interactions is discontinuous temporally. Studies on interpersonal coordination in face-to-face social encounters show that synchronous co-activity emerge swiftly and for brief periods [ 3 , 46 , 54 , 66 , 132 ].…”

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Infant-adult synchrony in spontaneous and nonspontaneous interactions

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Infant-adult synchrony has been reported through observational and experimental studies. Nevertheless, synchrony is addressed differently in both cases. While observational studies measure synchrony in spontaneous infant-adult interactions, experimental studies manipulate it, inducing nonspontaneous synchronous and asynchronous interactions. A still unsolved question is to what extent differ spontaneous synchrony from the nonspontaneous one, experimentally elicited. To address this question, we conducted a study to compare synchrony in both interactional contexts. Forty-three 14-month-old infants were randomly assigned to one of two independent groups: (1) the spontaneous interaction context, consisting of a storytime session; and (2) the nonspontaneous interaction context, where an assistant bounced the infant in synchrony with a stranger. We employed an optical motion capture system to accurately track the time and form of synchrony in both contexts. Our findings indicate that synchrony arising in spontaneous exchanges has different traits than synchrony produced in a nonspontaneous interplay. The evidence presented here offers new insights for rethinking the study of infant-adult synchrony and its consequences on child development.

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Neurobiological Approaches to Interpersonal Coordination: Achievements and Pitfalls

Cited by 4 publications

References 134 publications

Dynamics of Simultaneous and Imitative Bodily Coordination in Trust and Distrust

Dynamics of Simultaneous and Imitative Bodily Coordination in Trust and Distrust

Spontaneous bodily coordination varies across affective and intellectual child-adult interactions

Infant-adult synchrony in spontaneous and nonspontaneous interactions

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