Synchrony to a beat predicts synchrony with other minds

Author:

Wohltjen Sophie,Toth Brigitta,Boncz Adam,Wheatley Thalia

Abstract

AbstractSynchrony has been used to describe simple beat entrainment as well as correlated mental processes between people, leading some to question whether the term conflates distinct phenomena. Here we ask whether simple synchrony (beat entrainment) predicts more complex attentional synchrony, consistent with a common mechanism. While eye-tracked, participants listened to regularly spaced tones and indicated changes in volume. Across multiple sessions, we found a reliable individual difference: some people entrained their attention more than others, as reflected in beat-matched pupil dilations that predicted performance. In a second study, eye-tracked participants completed the beat task and then listened to a storyteller, who had been previously recorded while eye-tracked. An individual’s tendency to entrain to a beat predicted how strongly their pupils synchronized with those of the storyteller, a corollary of shared attention. The tendency to synchronize is a stable individual difference that predicts attentional synchrony across contexts and complexity.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Reference73 articles.

1. Doelling, K. B. & Poeppel, D. Cortical entrainment to music and its modulation by expertise. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112(45), E6233–E6242 (2015).

2. Kang, O. & Wheatley, T. Pupil dilation patterns reflect the contents of consciousness. Conscious. Cogn. 35, 128–135 (2015).

3. Ding, N. & Simon, J. Z. Cortical entrainment to continuous speech: Functional roles and interpretations. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8, 311 (2014).

4. Ravignani, A. Interdisciplinary debate: Agree on definitions of synchrony [Correspondence]. Nature. (2017). https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2449782/component/file_2449781/content

5. Niarchou, M., Gustavson, D. E., Sathirapongsasuti, J. F., Anglada-Tort, M., Eising, E., Bell, E., McArthur, E., Straub, P., 23 and Me Research Team, McAuley, J. D., Capra, J. A., Ullén, F., Creanza, N., Mosing, M. A., Hinds, D. A., Davis, L. K., Jacoby, N., & Gordon, R. L. Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity. Nat. Human Behav. 6(9), 1292–1309 (2022).

Cited by 6 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献 订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3