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  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

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  • Understanding human coordination is crucial for fields like robotics and sports science.
  • Investigating factors influencing movement synchronization, such as social presence and perceived agency, deepens our knowledge of interpersonal dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare movement synchronization when coordinating with a person versus a moving object.
  • To assess the impact of perceived agency on human movement coordination.

Main Methods:

  • Participants synchronized lower-arm movements with pre-recorded biological reference movements.
  • Reference movements were presented via a confederate's arm or a manipulandum alone.
  • Belief in the confederate's agency was manipulated by informing participants if movements were motor-driven.

Main Results:

  • Coupling strength (assessed by relative phase variability and perturbation recovery) was unaffected by the presence of another person or belief in their agency.
  • Participants showed a stronger tendency to lead when synchronizing with the manipulandum compared to the confederate.

Conclusions:

  • Neither social presence nor perceived agency altered the strength of movement coupling.
  • The form of coordination, specifically leading/lagging behavior, differed between coordinating with a person and an object, suggesting distinct attunement processes in joint action.