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Exploring Intentional and Unintentional Coordination Within Dyads
Description
Humans achieve coordination within and across themselves through the use of coupling. Coupling is the term for an informational linkage that allows two independent processes to eventually coordinate together. Coupling between the motor and respiratory system is evident within people through the signaling of the nervous system. However, little has been known about the degree of coordination that can be attained across two people regarding their respiratory patterns. The current study tested whether unintentional coordination of respiration across two people could be achieved when both people were intentionally coordinating their motor movements. Participants were assigned the position of leader or follower, where the leader followed the rhythm of a metronome to lift their leg to and the follower coordinated their leg-lift with the leader’s using their vision, as instructed. During the experiment the movements of each participant’s knee and their respiration were recorded. Relative phase was used as a measure of coordination. Results show that motor coordination was achieved, consistent with past studies, but that there was no coordination of respiration across the participants. This is most likely due to individual differences in physiology and the lack of coupling between the two separate respiratory systems. Although internal motor-respiratory patterns may have coordinated in a multi-frequency manner within each participant, the outward phasing of their respiration showed no such relationship. This study highlights the importance of a multi-frequency approach when observing coordination within and across physiological systems.
Date Created
2020-12
Contributors
- Hunteman, Zebediah Monroe (Author)
- Amazeen, Polemnia (Thesis director)
- Amazeen, Eric (Committee member)
- Anderson, Samantha (Committee member)
- Department of Psychology (Contributor)
- School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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36 pages
Language
eng
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2020-2021
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.62600
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minimal
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- 2020-12-02 11:11:52
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- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 3 years 3 months ago
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