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  • Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Conversation involves synchronized body postures and gaze patterns between individuals.
  • Existing literature suggests action embodies cognition and postural coordination arises spontaneously during dialogue.
  • Gaze patterns are influenced by shared knowledge and visual information, impacting postural coordination.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and synthesize literature on the coordination of body posture and gaze during conversation.
  • To explore the relationship between gaze coordination, common ground, and mutual understanding.
  • To conceptualize interpersonal coordination within the framework of motor control theory, specifically coordinative structures.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review synthesizing findings from cognitive science, neuroscience, and social psychology.
  • Analysis of existing research on postural and gaze coordination in dyadic conversation.
  • Theoretical integration of concepts from motor control (coordinative structures) to explain interpersonal coordination.

Main Results:

  • Postural coordination emerges spontaneously during conversation.
  • Gaze coordination is linked to shared knowledge and is causally related to mutual understanding.
  • Interpersonal coordination can be viewed as a cross-person coordinative structure.

Conclusions:

  • The coordination of body sway and gaze in conversation represents a cross-person coordinative structure.
  • This structure embodies the goals of the joint action system, reflecting mutual understanding.
  • Understanding interpersonal coordination offers insights into the embodied nature of cognition and social interaction.