The geometry of interpersonal synchrony in human dance.

ABSTRACT: Collective synchronized behavior has powerful social-communicative functions observed across several animal taxa.^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7} Operationally, synchronized behavior can be explained by individuals responding to shared external cues (e.g., light, sound, or food) as well as by inter-individual adaptation.^3,8,9,10,11 We contrasted these accounts in the context of a universal human practice-collective dance-by recording full-body kinematics from dyads of laypersons freely dancing to music in a "silent disco" setting. We orthogonally manipulated musical inpu

SUBMITTER: Bigand F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11266842 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature