Cue properties change timing strategies in group movement synchronisation.

ABSTRACT: To maintain synchrony in group activities, each individual within the group must continuously correct their movements to remain in time with the temporal cues available. Cues might originate from one or more members of the group. Current research suggests that when synchronising movements, individuals optimise their performance in terms of minimising variability of timing errors (asynchronies) between external cues and their own movements. However, the cost of this is an increase in the timing variability of their own movements. Here we investigate whether an individual's timing strategy changes according to the task, in a group scenario. To investigate this, we employed a novel paradigm that positioned six individuals to form two chains with common origin and termination on the circumfere

SUBMITTER: Honisch JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4726081 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature