Looking, pointing, and talking together: How dyads of differential expertise coordinate attention during conversation.

ABSTRACT: When people discuss something that they can both see, their attention becomes increasingly coupled. Previous studies have found that this coupling is temporally asymmetric (e.g., one person leads and one follows) when dyads are assigned conversational roles (e.g., speaker and listener). And while such studies have focused on the coupling of gaze, there is also evidence that people use their hands to coordinate attention. The present study uses a visual task to expand on this past work in two respects. First, rather than assigning conversational roles, participants' background knowledge was manipulated (e.g., expert and novice) to elicit differential roles inherent to the conversation. Second, participants were permitted to gesture freely while interacting. Cross Recurrence Quantification A

SUBMITTER: Haraped L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11658607 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature