Spontaneous bodily coordination varies across affective and intellectual child-adult interactions.

ABSTRACT: Research on child-adult interactions has identified that the morphology of bodily coordination seems to be sensitive to age and type of interaction. Mirror-like imitation emerges earlier in life and is more common during emotionally laden interactions, while anatomical imitation is acquired later and associated with cognitive tasks. However, it remains unclear whether these morphologies also vary with age and type of interaction during spontaneous coordination. Here we report a motion capture study comparing the spontaneous coordination patterns of thirty-five 3-year-old (20 girls; M_age = 3.15 years) and forty 6-year-old children (20 girls; M_age = 6.13 years) interacting with unacquainted adults during two storytelling sessions. The stories narrated the

SUBMITTER: Cornejo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10824830 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature