Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits.

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Stefanie HoehlAnnett Schirmer

Abstract

Many group-living animals, humans included, occasionally synchronize their behavior with that of conspecifics. Social psychology and neuroscience have attempted to explain this phenomenon. Here we sought to integrate results around three themes: the stimuli, the mechanisms and the benefits of interactional synchrony. As regards stimuli, we asked what characteristics, apart from temporal regularity, prompt synchronization and found that stimulus modality and complexity are important. The high temporal resolution of the auditory system and the relevance of socio-emotional information endow auditory, multimodal, emotional and somewhat variable and adaptive sequences with particular synchronizing power. Looking at the mechanisms revealed that traditional perspectives emphasizing beat-based representations of others' signals conflict with more recent work investigating the perception of temporal regularity. Timing processes supported by striato-cortical loops represent any kind of repetitive interval sequence fairly automatically. Additionally, socio-emotional processes supported by posterior superior temporal cortex help endow such sequences with value motivating the extent of synchronizing. Synchronizing benefits arise from an inc...Continue Reading

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Jun 9, 2020·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·Annett SchirmerThomas C Gunter
Jun 28, 2020·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·Trinh NguyenStefanie Hoehl
Jul 28, 2020·AJOB Neuroscience·Adina L Roskies, Ashley Walton
Dec 10, 2020·Trends in Cognitive Sciences·Giacomo Novembre, Gian Domenico Iannetti
Oct 27, 2020·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·Annett SchirmerStefanie Hoehl
Jul 3, 2021·Sensors·Trinh NguyenPascal Vrtička
Jun 23, 2021·The European Journal of Neuroscience·Yue SunDavid Poeppel
Aug 17, 2021·Frontiers in Psychology·Alessandro CarolloGianluca Esposito
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