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The Subjective Sensation of Synchrony: An Experimental Study.

  • Llobera J Immersive Interaction Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Charbonnier C Medical Research Department, Artanim Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Chagué S Medical Research Department, Artanim Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Preissmann D Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Antonietti JP Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Ansermet F Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Magistretti PJ KAUST, Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia.
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  • 2016-02-13
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  • PloS one. - 2016
Adult
Attention
Brain
Empathy
Female
Humans
Male
Motion Perception
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Space Perception
English People performing actions together have a natural tendency to synchronize their behavior. Consistently, people doing a task together build internal representations not only of their actions and goals, but also of the other people performing the task. However, little is known about which are the behavioral mechanisms and the psychological factors affecting the subjective sensation of synchrony, or "connecting" with someone else. In this work, we sought to find which factors induce the subjective sensation of synchrony, combining motion capture data and psychological measures. Our results show that the subjective sensation of synchrony is affected by performance quality together with task category, and time. Psychological factors such as empathy and negative subjective affects also correlate with the subjective sensation of synchrony. However, when people estimate synchrony as seen from a third person perspective, their psychological factors do not affect the accuracy of the estimation. We suggest that to feel this sensation it is necessary to, first, have a good joint performance and, second, to assume the existence of an attention monitoring mechanism that reports that the attention of both participants (self and other) is focused on the task.
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  • English
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gold
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