Synchronous vs. non-synchronous imitation: Using dance to explore interpersonal coordination during observational learning

Crone, Cassandra; Rigoli, Lillian; Patil, Gaurav; Pini, Sarah; Sutton, John; Kallen, Rachel W.; Richardson, Michael J.

doi:10.1016/j.humov.2021.102776

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“…A third remark is that time‐delayed relationships (i.e., at lags other than 0) between perceived and kinematic coupling were for some analyses stronger than immediate relationships (i.e., at 0 lag), as shown in Supporting Information Figure A2 for both similarity and interaction; this can be clearly seen for horizontal imitation, where 4‐beat lag correlations are higher than those at 0‐beat lag. These results support the notion of nonsynchronous action mirroring (see Crone et al., 2021) and that observers paid attention to these aspects when rating Interaction. Further, they recall von Zimmermann, Vicary, Sperling, Orgs, and Richardson (2018) finding that distributed (time‐delayed) coordination rather than unitary coordination predicted group bonding between dancers.…”

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“…Synchrony, as a period locking spectrum, makes it possible to assess the relative contribution of different movement frequencies to dyadic coupling, helping to understand whether the dancers are mainly coupled through slow swaying, fast bouncing, or a combination thereof. Imitation, on the other hand, can help to identify leader–follower relationships or reciprocal exchanges of information; previous work has utilized similar features to quantify dance synchronization using parameterized (binarized) accounts of coupling between dancers (Crone et al., 2021), whereas our implementation is parameter‐free. The main methodological contribution of this study was to carry out a perceptual validation of these three features.…”

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Postural and Gestural Synchronization, Sequential Imitation, and Mirroring Predict Perceived Coupling of Dancing Dyads

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Body movement is a primary nonverbal communication channel in humans. Coordinated social behaviors, such as dancing together, encourage multifarious rhythmic and interpersonally coupled movements from which observers can extract socially and contextually relevant information. The investigation of relations between visual social perception and kinematic motor coupling is important for social cognition. Perceived coupling of dyads spontaneously dancing to pop music has been shown to be highly driven by the degree of frontal orientation between dancers. The perceptual salience of other aspects, including postural congruence, movement frequencies, time‐delayed relations, and horizontal mirroring remains, however, uncertain. In a motion capture study, 90 participant dyads moved freely to 16 musical excerpts from eight musical genres, while their movements were recorded using optical motion capture. A total from 128 recordings from 8 dyads maximally facing each other were selected to generate silent 8‐s animations. Three kinematic features describing simultaneous and sequential full body coupling were extracted from the dyads. In an online experiment, the animations were presented to 432 observers, who were asked to rate perceived similarity and interaction between dancers. We found dyadic kinematic coupling estimates to be higher than those obtained from surrogate estimates, providing evidence for a social dimension of entrainment in dance. Further, we observed links between perceived similarity and coupling of both slower simultaneous horizontal gestures and posture bounding volumes. Perceived interaction, on the other hand, was more related to coupling of faster simultaneous gestures and to sequential coupling. Also, dyads who were perceived as more coupled tended to mirror their pair's movements.

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Postural and Gestural Synchronization, Sequential Imitation, and Mirroring Predict Perceived Coupling of Dancing Dyads

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“…A third remark is that time-delayed relationships (i.e., at lags other than 0) between perceived and kinematic coupling were for some analyses stronger than immediate relationships (i.e., at 0 lag), as shown in Supplementary Figure A2 for both Similarity and Interaction; this can be clearly seen for horizontal Imitation, where 4-beat lag correlations are higher than those at 0-beat lag. These results support the notion of non-synchronous action mirroring (see Crone et al, 2021) and that observers paid attention to these aspects when rating Interaction. Further, they recall von Zimmerman et al's (2018) finding that distributed (time-delayed) coordination rather than unitary coordination predicted group bonding between dancers.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

“…Synchrony, as a period locking spectrum, makes it possible to assess the relative contribution of different movement frequencies to dyadic coupling, helping to understand whether the dancers are mainly coupled through slow swaying, fast bouncing, or a combination thereof. Imitation, on the other hand, can help to identify leader-follower relationships or reciprocal exchanges of information; previous work has utilized similar features to quantify dance synchronization using parameterized (binarized) accounts of coupling between dancers (Crone et al, 2021), whereas our implementation is parameter-free. The main methodological contribution of this study was to carry out a perceptual validation of these three features.…”

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Postural and gestural synchronization, sequential imitation, and mirroring predict perceived coupling of dancing dyads

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Carlson²,

Mavrolampados³

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Dance is a rich testing ground for exploring the relations between perceived and kinematic motor coupling. Perceived coupling of dyads spontaneously dancing to pop music has been shown to be highly driven by the degree of frontal orientation between dancers. The perceptual salience of other aspects, including postural congruence, movement frequencies, time-delayed relations, and horizontal mirroring remains, however, uncertain. In a motion capture study, 90 participant dyads moved freely to 16 musical excerpts from 8 musical genres while their movements were recorded using optical motion capture. 128 recordings from 8 dyads maximally facing each other were selected to generate silent 8-second animations. Three kinematic features describing simultaneous and sequential full body coupling were extracted from the dyads. In an online experiment, the animations were presented to 432 observers, who were asked to rate perceived similarity and interaction between dancers. We found dyadic kinematic coupling estimates to be higher than those obtained from surrogate estimates, providing evidence for a social dimension of entrainment in dance. Further, we observed links between perceived similarity and coupling of both slower simultaneous horizontal gestures and posture bounding volumes. Perceived interaction, on the other hand, was more related to coupling of faster simultaneous gestures and to sequential coupling. Also, dyads who were perceived as more coupled tended to mirror their pair’s movements.

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“…In both studies ,significantly more participants exceeded the pain threshold in the experimental group than in the control group. Although these and other observational learning studies do not clearly indicate how the time delay between observation and exposure shapes the learned response 18,33,48 , it is reasonable to hypothesize that real-time observation could enhance information retention 8 and thus increase the effect.…”

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Is Pain Contagious? Innocuous Stimulation Can be Transformed Into the Pain Experience by Observational Learning

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Adamczyk

Bąbel

2022

The Journal of Pain

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Synchronous vs. non-synchronous imitation: Using dance to explore interpersonal coordination during observational learning

Cited by 12 publications

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Postural and Gestural Synchronization, Sequential Imitation, and Mirroring Predict Perceived Coupling of Dancing Dyads

Postural and Gestural Synchronization, Sequential Imitation, and Mirroring Predict Perceived Coupling of Dancing Dyads

Postural and gestural synchronization, sequential imitation, and mirroring predict perceived coupling of dancing dyads

Is Pain Contagious? Innocuous Stimulation Can be Transformed Into the Pain Experience by Observational Learning

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