Mutual interpersonal postural constraints are involved in cooperative conversation.

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The research was designed to evaluate interpersonal coordination during conversation with a new measurement tool. The experiment uses an analysis based on recurrence strategies, known as cross recurrence quantification, to evaluate the shared activity between 2 postural time series in reconstructed phase space. Pairs of participants were found to share more locations in phase space (greater recurrence) in conditions where they were conversing with one another to solve a puzzle task than in conditions in which they convened with others. The trajectories of pairs of participants also showed less divergence when they conversed with each other than when they conversed with others well. This is offered as objective evidence of interpersonal coordination of postural sway in the context of a cooperative verbal task.

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Author/s: Shockley, Kevin (K); Santana, Marie-Vee (MV); Fowler, Carol A (CA);

Affiliation: Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. kevin.shockley(-atsign-)uc.edu

Grants: DC-03782 (Agency:NIDCD NIH HHS)

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Publication Type: Clinical Trial; Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 29 (issue 2) : pp 326-32

Dates: Created 2003/05/22; Completed 2003/09/09; Revised 2007/11/15;

PMID: 12760618, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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