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The Subjective Sensation of Synchrony: An Experimental Study

Llobera, Joan  
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Charbonnier, Caecilia
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Chagué, Sylvain
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2016
PLOS ONE

People performing actions together have a natural tendency to synchronize their behavior. Consistently, people doing a task together build internal representations not only of their actions and goals, but also of the other people performing the task. However, little is known about which are the behavioral mechanisms and the psychological factors affecting the subjective sensation of synchrony, or “connecting” with someone else. In this work, we sought to find which factors induce the subjective sensation of synchrony, combining motion capture data and psychological measures. Our results show that the subjective sensation of synchrony is affected by performance quality together with task category, and time. Psychological factors such as empathy and negative subjective affects also correlate with the subjective sensation of synchrony. However, when people estimate synchrony as seen from a third person perspective, their psychological factors do not affect the accuracy of the estimation. We suggest that to feel this sensation it is necessary to, first, have a good joint performance and, second, to assume the existence of an attention monitoring mechanism that reports that the attention of both participants (self and other) is focused on the task.

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research article
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0147008
Web of Science ID

WOS:000370054100005

Author(s)
Llobera, Joan  
Charbonnier, Caecilia
Chagué, Sylvain
Preissmann, Delphine
Antonietti, Jean-Philippe
Ansermet, François
Magistretti, Pierre J.
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Public Library of Science

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PLOS ONE
Volume

11

Issue

2

Article Number

e0147008

Subjects

sensory perception

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
SCI-IC-RB  
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February 24, 2016
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/124409
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