Journal
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 211, Issue 3-4, Pages 483-493Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2689-9
Keywords
Action observation; Interpersonal coordination; Motor control; Motor congruency
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [0750190, 0750187, 0926662]
- Commission of the European Community [035005]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [926662, 0750187] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0750190] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The current project evaluated the relationship between the stability of intrapersonal coordination and the emergence of spontaneous interpersonal coordination. Participants were organized into pairs, and each participant was instructed to produce either an inphase or antiphase pattern of intrapersonal bimanual coordination using two hand-held pendulums, while simultaneously performing an interpersonal puzzle task. At issue was whether the emergence and stability of spontaneous interpersonal rhythmic coordination is influenced by (Experiment 1) the stability of the intrapersonal coordination patterns produced by co-actors and (Experiment 2) the congruency of the intrapersonal coordination patterns produced by co-actors. The stability of intrapersonal movement coordination did not affect the emergence of spontaneous interpersonal coordination. The degree of interpersonal coordination observed was similar when both participants in a pair produced either inphase or antiphase patterns of intrapersonal bimanual coordination. Moreover, the congruency of the intrapersonal coordination patterns only slightly affected the emergence of interpersonal coordination, with only marginally lower inphase interpersonal entrainment when participants produced incongruent patterns of intrapersonal coordination (e.g., inphase-antiphase). Interestingly, movement observation and the emergence of interpersonal coordination did not affect the stability of intrapersonal bimanual coordination. The results suggest that interlimb rhythmic bimanual coordination reflects a single intrapersonal perceptual-motor synergy and that these bimanual synergies (not individual limbs) are what become spontaneously entrained interpersonally.
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