The Stance Leads the Dance: The Emergence of Role in a Joint Supra-Postural Task
Successfully meeting a shared goal usually requires co-actors to adopt complementary roles. However, in many cases, who adopts what role is not explicitly predetermined, but instead emerges as a consequence of the differences in the individual abilities and constraints imposed upon each actor. Perha...
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| description | Successfully meeting a shared goal usually requires co-actors to adopt complementary roles. However, in many cases, who adopts what role is not explicitly predetermined, but instead emerges as a consequence of the differences in the individual abilities and constraints imposed upon each actor. Perhaps the most basic of roles are leader and follower. Here, we investigated the emergence of “leader-follower” dynamics in inter-personal coordination using a joint supra-postural task paradigm (Ramenzoni et al., 2011; Athreya et al., 2014). Pairs of actors were tasked with holding two objects in alignment (each actor manually controlled one of the objects) as they faced different demands for stance (stable vs. difficult) and control (which actor controlled the larger or smaller object). Our results indicate that when actors were in identical stances, neither led the inter-personal (between actors) coordination by any systematic fashion. Alternatively, when asymmetries in postural demands were introduced, the actor with the more difficult stance led the coordination (as determined using cross-recurrence quantification analysis). Moreover, changes in individual stance difficulty resulted in similar changes in the structure of both intra-personal (individual) and inter-personal (dyadic) coordination, suggesting a scale invariance of the task dynamics. Implications for the study of interpersonal coordination are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2508c5ebf17465ba195584b599187f32022-12-22T02:25:18ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-05-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.00718243600The Stance Leads the Dance: The Emergence of Role in a Joint Supra-Postural TaskTehran J. Davis0Gabriela B. Pinto1Gabriela B. Pinto2Adam W. Kiefer3Adam W. Kiefer4Adam W. Kiefer5Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, StorrsCT, USACenter for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, StorrsCT, USACAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of BrazilBrasília, BrazilDivision of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, CincinnatiOH, USADepartment of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, CincinnatiOH, USACenter for Cognition, Action and Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, CincinnatiOH, USASuccessfully meeting a shared goal usually requires co-actors to adopt complementary roles. However, in many cases, who adopts what role is not explicitly predetermined, but instead emerges as a consequence of the differences in the individual abilities and constraints imposed upon each actor. Perhaps the most basic of roles are leader and follower. Here, we investigated the emergence of “leader-follower” dynamics in inter-personal coordination using a joint supra-postural task paradigm (Ramenzoni et al., 2011; Athreya et al., 2014). Pairs of actors were tasked with holding two objects in alignment (each actor manually controlled one of the objects) as they faced different demands for stance (stable vs. difficult) and control (which actor controlled the larger or smaller object). Our results indicate that when actors were in identical stances, neither led the inter-personal (between actors) coordination by any systematic fashion. Alternatively, when asymmetries in postural demands were introduced, the actor with the more difficult stance led the coordination (as determined using cross-recurrence quantification analysis). Moreover, changes in individual stance difficulty resulted in similar changes in the structure of both intra-personal (individual) and inter-personal (dyadic) coordination, suggesting a scale invariance of the task dynamics. Implications for the study of interpersonal coordination are discussed.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00718/fullinterpersonal coordinationjoint actionmovement dynamicsrecurrence quantification analysesself-organization |
| spellingShingle | Tehran J. Davis Gabriela B. Pinto Gabriela B. Pinto Adam W. Kiefer Adam W. Kiefer Adam W. Kiefer The Stance Leads the Dance: The Emergence of Role in a Joint Supra-Postural Task Frontiers in Psychology interpersonal coordination joint action movement dynamics recurrence quantification analyses self-organization |
| title | The Stance Leads the Dance: The Emergence of Role in a Joint Supra-Postural Task |
| title_full | The Stance Leads the Dance: The Emergence of Role in a Joint Supra-Postural Task |
| title_fullStr | The Stance Leads the Dance: The Emergence of Role in a Joint Supra-Postural Task |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Stance Leads the Dance: The Emergence of Role in a Joint Supra-Postural Task |
| title_short | The Stance Leads the Dance: The Emergence of Role in a Joint Supra-Postural Task |
| title_sort | stance leads the dance the emergence of role in a joint supra postural task |
| topic | interpersonal coordination joint action movement dynamics recurrence quantification analyses self-organization |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00718/full |
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