Collaborative Research: RUI: Perceptual Pick-up Processes in Interpersonal Coordination

社交互动中的动作经常是无意中同步的，像舞蹈一样。最近的社会神经科学研究表明，一个特殊的进化的“镜像”子系统可能是促进这些社会互动及其更多的精神伴侣，如融洽、移情和支配关系的神经底物。要理解人与人之间的协调模式是如何从神经基础中产生的，一个楔子来自动态夹带原理。为了建立动态的人际协同，这既是有意协调的基础，也是自发协调的基础，人们必须适应人际情境中的相关信息。本研究探讨了人际纠缠的知觉基础。研究记录了当人们在共同的任务中相互作用时的动作。使用频谱和非线性时间序列方法分析运动记录，以确定协调模式如何受到交互作用的特定属性的影响。一种这样的属性是知觉拾取节奏(例如，由眼球运动来索引)，它可以在人际协调模式中发挥作用。其他实验研究了环境刺激的生物/社会性质如何影响人际协调，模仿现象与更默契的人际协调之间的关系，以及行为人际协调如何受到参与者的心理协调(例如，融洽)的影响。这项研究将提供更好的理解，使我们更好地理解人类社会交往中运动协调的默契维度，并限制我们对神经系统在创造社会行为中所起作用的理解。了解互动同步性的基础对于理解心理障碍也很重要，因为这种同步性在精神分裂症、自闭症甚至婚姻不满等疾病中会分解。

Movements in social interactions are often unintentionally synchronized and dance-like. Recent research in social neuroscience has proposed that a special evolved "mirror" subsystem may be the neural substrate that facilitates these social interactions as well as their more mental concomitants such as rapport, empathy, and dominance relations. One wedge into understanding how the interpersonal coordination patterns emerge from the neural substrate comes from principles of dynamical entrainment. In order to establish the dynamical interpersonal synergy that is the basis for both intentional and spontaneous coordination, people must be attuned to the relevant information in the interpersonal situation. The proposed research explores the perceptual basis of interpersonal entrainment. Studies record the movements of people when they interact with each other in a common task. Movement records are analyzed using spectral and nonlinear time series methods to determine how the coordination patterns are affected by specific properties of the interaction. One such property is the perceptual pickup rhythm (e.g., as indexed by eye movements), which may play a role in interpersonal coordination patterns. Other experiments investigate how interpersonal coordination is affected by the biological/social nature of environmental stimuli, the relationship between mimicry phenomena and more tacit interpersonal coordination, and how behavioral interpersonal coordination is affected by psychological coordination (e.g., rapport) of the individuals involved.This research will provide a better understanding of the tacit dimension of movement coordination in human social interactions and will constrain our understanding of the role that the nervous system plays in creating social behavior. Understanding the bases of interactional synchrony is also important for understanding psychological dysfunction, in that such synchrony breaks down in pathologies such as schizophrenia, autism and even marital dissatisfaction.