Keeping in time with social and non-social stimuli: Synchronisation with auditory, visual, and audio-visual cues
Abstract Everyday social interactions require us to closely monitor, predict, and synchronise our movements with those of an interacting partner. Experimental studies of social synchrony typically examine the social-cognitive outcomes associated with synchrony, such as affiliation. On the other hand...
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| author | Juliane J. Honisch Prasannajeet Mane Ofer Golan Bhismadev Chakrabarti |
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| description | Abstract Everyday social interactions require us to closely monitor, predict, and synchronise our movements with those of an interacting partner. Experimental studies of social synchrony typically examine the social-cognitive outcomes associated with synchrony, such as affiliation. On the other hand, research on the sensorimotor aspects of synchronisation generally uses non-social stimuli (e.g. a moving dot). To date, the differences in sensorimotor aspects of synchronisation to social compared to non-social stimuli remain largely unknown. The present study aims to address this gap using a verbal response paradigm where participants were asked to synchronise a ‘ba’ response in time with social and non-social stimuli, which were presented auditorily, visually, or audio-visually combined. For social stimuli a video/audio recording of an actor performing the same verbal ‘ba’ response was presented, whereas for non-social stimuli a moving dot, an auditory metronome or both combined were presented. The impact of autistic traits on participants’ synchronisation performance was examined using the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ). Our results revealed more accurate synchronisation for social compared to non-social stimuli, suggesting that greater familiarity with and motivation in attending to social stimuli may enhance our ability to better predict and synchronise with them. Individuals with fewer autistic traits demonstrated greater social learning, as indexed through an improvement in synchronisation performance to social vs non-social stimuli across the experiment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6cff98006a214db891f4aa8792e9c17e2022-12-21T22:55:39ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222021-04-0111111110.1038/s41598-021-88112-yKeeping in time with social and non-social stimuli: Synchronisation with auditory, visual, and audio-visual cuesJuliane J. Honisch0Prasannajeet Mane1Ofer Golan2Bhismadev Chakrabarti3Centre for Autism, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of ReadingCentre for Autism, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of ReadingDepartment of Psychology, Bar-Ilan UniversityCentre for Autism, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of ReadingAbstract Everyday social interactions require us to closely monitor, predict, and synchronise our movements with those of an interacting partner. Experimental studies of social synchrony typically examine the social-cognitive outcomes associated with synchrony, such as affiliation. On the other hand, research on the sensorimotor aspects of synchronisation generally uses non-social stimuli (e.g. a moving dot). To date, the differences in sensorimotor aspects of synchronisation to social compared to non-social stimuli remain largely unknown. The present study aims to address this gap using a verbal response paradigm where participants were asked to synchronise a ‘ba’ response in time with social and non-social stimuli, which were presented auditorily, visually, or audio-visually combined. For social stimuli a video/audio recording of an actor performing the same verbal ‘ba’ response was presented, whereas for non-social stimuli a moving dot, an auditory metronome or both combined were presented. The impact of autistic traits on participants’ synchronisation performance was examined using the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ). Our results revealed more accurate synchronisation for social compared to non-social stimuli, suggesting that greater familiarity with and motivation in attending to social stimuli may enhance our ability to better predict and synchronise with them. Individuals with fewer autistic traits demonstrated greater social learning, as indexed through an improvement in synchronisation performance to social vs non-social stimuli across the experiment.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88112-y |
| spellingShingle | Juliane J. Honisch Prasannajeet Mane Ofer Golan Bhismadev Chakrabarti Keeping in time with social and non-social stimuli: Synchronisation with auditory, visual, and audio-visual cues Scientific Reports |
| title | Keeping in time with social and non-social stimuli: Synchronisation with auditory, visual, and audio-visual cues |
| title_full | Keeping in time with social and non-social stimuli: Synchronisation with auditory, visual, and audio-visual cues |
| title_fullStr | Keeping in time with social and non-social stimuli: Synchronisation with auditory, visual, and audio-visual cues |
| title_full_unstemmed | Keeping in time with social and non-social stimuli: Synchronisation with auditory, visual, and audio-visual cues |
| title_short | Keeping in time with social and non-social stimuli: Synchronisation with auditory, visual, and audio-visual cues |
| title_sort | keeping in time with social and non social stimuli synchronisation with auditory visual and audio visual cues |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88112-y |
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