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Area of Science:

  • Developmental psychology
  • Infant behavior
  • Human-computer interaction

Background:

  • Pre-mobile infants and caregivers exhibit synchronized social interactions like facial expressions and vocalizations.
  • The continuation of this social
  • dance
  • during free movement remains unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether locomotor synchrony occurs between 13- to 19-month-old infants and their mothers during free play.
  • To identify patterns of locomotor synchrony and determine leadership roles within infant-mother dyads.

Main Methods:

  • Tracking step-to-step locations of infants and mothers during free play in 30 dyads.
  • Analyzing spatiotemporal paths to identify synchronized movement patterns.
  • Utilizing clustering analyses to categorize synchrony patterns (mother-follow, yo-yo).

Main Results:

  • Infant-mother dyads spontaneously synchronized their locomotor activity, despite infants moving more.
  • The movement path of one partner often predicted the other's path.
  • Infants were more likely to initiate and lead the locomotor synchrony compared to mothers.

Conclusions:

  • Locomotor synchrony is a natural behavior in infant-mother dyads during free play.
  • This synchrony, similar to face-to-face interactions, supports infants' engagement with their surroundings.
  • Findings suggest a foundation for understanding early social interaction and spatial coordination.