Conversational Synchronization in Naturally Occurring Settings: A Recurrence-Based Analysis of Gaze Directions and Speech Rhythms of Staff and Clients with Intellectual Disability

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 281-305

  Reuzel, Ellen ^a,b   Embregts, Petri J C M ^a,c,d   Bosman, Anna M T ^e   Cox, Ralf ^f   van Nieuwenhuijzen, Maroesjka ^g,h   Jahoda, Andrew ⁱ  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JP van den Bentstichting   (Netherlands)

^c HAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^d Dichterbij Kennisn ^*  (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative relationship; Intellectual disabilities; Interactional patterns; Nonverbal communication; Social interactions; Staff client interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886736947     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-013-0158-9     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Antaki, C., & Rapley, M. (1996). 'Quality of life' talk: The liberal paradox of psychological testing. Discourse and Society, 7, 293-316. doi: 10. 1177/0957926596007003002.
2. Antaki, C., Young, N., & Finlay, M. (2002). Shaping clients' answers: Departures from neutrality in care-staff interviews with people with a learning disability. Disability and Society, 17, 435-455. doi: 0. 1080/09687590220140368.
3. Argyle, M., & Cook, M. (1976). Gaze and mutual gaze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Bartlett, C., & Bunning, K. T. (1997). The importance of communication partnerships: A study to investigate the communicative exchanges between staff and adults with learning disabilities. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 25, 148-153. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1468-3156. 1997. tb00030. x.
5. Bernieri, F. J., & Rosenthal, R. (1991). Interpersonal coordination: Behavior matching and interactional synchrony. In R. S. Feldman & B. Rime (Eds.), Fundamentals of nonverbal behavior (pp. 401-432). NY: Cambridge University Press.
6. Bradshaw, J. (2001). Complexity of staff communication and reported level of understanding skills in adults with intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 45, 233-243. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-2788. 2001. 00318. x.
7. Cacioppo, J. T., Visser, P. S., Pickett, C. L., et al. (2006). Social neuroscience: People thinking about thinking people. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
8. Cappella, J. N., & Planalp, S. (1981). Talk and silence sequences in informal conversations iii: Interspeaker influence. Human Communication Research, 7(2), 117-132.
9. Chapple, E. D. (1970). Culture and biological man: Explorations in behavioral anthropology. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
10. Chartrand, T. L., & Bargh, J. A. (1999). The chameleon effect: The perception-behavior link and social interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 893-910. doi: 10. 1037/0022-3514. 76. 6. 893.
11. Church, K. W. (1993). Char align: A program for aligning parallel texts at the character level. In Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics (Vol. 31, pp. 1-8).
12. Dale, R., & Spivey, M. J. (2005). Categorical recurrence analysis of child language. In Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting of the cognitive science society (pp. 530-535). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
13. Dale, R., & Spivey, M. J. (2006). Unraveling the dyad: Using recurrence analysis to explore patterns of syntactic coordination between children and caregivers in conversation. Language Learning, 56, 391-430. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1467-9922. 2006. 00372. x.
14. de Graag, J. A., Cox, R. F. A., Hasselman, F., Jansen, J., & de Weerth, C. (2012). Functioning within a relationship: Mother-infant synchrony and infant sleep. Infant Behavior and Development, 35, 252-263. doi: 10. 1016/j. infbeh. 2011. 12. 006.
15. Delaherche, E., Chetouani, M., Mahdaoui, A., Saint-Georges, C., Viaux, S., & Cohem, D. (2012). Interpersonal synchrony: A survey of evaluation methods across disciplines. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 3, 349-365. doi: 10. 1109/T-AFFC. 2012. 12.
16. Duchan, J. F. (1986). Language intervention through sense-making and fine tuning. In R. L. Schiefelbusch (Ed.), Language competence, assessment and intervention (pp. 75-84). NY: College Hill Press.
17. Duncan, B., Miller, S., & Sparks, J. (2004). The heroic client: A revolutionary way to improve effectiveness through client directed, outcome informed therapy. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
18. Eckmann, J. P., Kamphorst, S. O., & Ruelle, D. (1987). Recurrence plots of dynamical systems. Europhysics Letters, 5, 973-977. doi: 10. 1209/0295-5075/4/9/004.
19. Finlay, W. M. L., Walton, C., & Antaki, C. (2008). Promoting choice and control in residential services for people with learning disabilities. Disability and Society, 23, 349-360. doi: 10. 1080/09687590802038860.
20. Fowler, C. A., Richardson, M. J., Marsh, K., & Shockley, K. D. (2008). Language use, coordination and the emergence of cooperative action. In A. Fuchs & V. Jirsa (Eds.), Coordination: Neural, behavioral and social dynamics (pp. 161-180). Berlin: Springer.
21. Giles, H., Coupland, J., & Coupland, N. (1991). Accommodation theory: Communication, context, and consequences. In H. Giles, J. Coupland, & N. Coupland (Eds.), Contexts of accommodation: Developments in applied sociolinguistics (pp. 1-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
22. Goodwin, C. (1981). Conversational organization: Interaction between speakers and hearers. NY: Academic Press.
23. Hove, M. J., & Risen, J. L. (2009). It's all in the timing: Interpersonal synchrony increases affiliation. Social Cognition, 27, 949-960. doi: 10. 1521/soco. 2009. 27. 6. 949.
24. Hutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
25. Isenhower, R. W., Marsh, K. L., Richardson, M. J., Helt, M., Schmidt, R. C., & Fein, D. (2012). Rhythmic bimanual coordination is impaired in children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 6, 25-31. doi: 10. 1016/j. rasd. 2011. 08. 005.
26. Jahoda, A., Dagnan, D., Kroese, B. S., Pert, C., & Trower, P. (2009). Cognitive behavioural therapy: From face to face interaction to a broader contextual understanding of change. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 53, 759-771. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2788. 2009. 01189. x.
27. Jingree, T., Finlay, W. M. L., & Antaki, C. (2006). Empowering words, disempowering actions: An analysis of interactions between staff members and people with learning disabilities in residents' meetings. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 50, 212-226. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2788. 2005. 00771. x.
28. Leudar, I. (1981). Strategic communication in mental retardation. In W. I. Fraser & R. Grieve (Eds.), Communication with normal and retarded children (pp. 113-129). Bristol, UK: John Wright and Sons.
29. Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A., Hasselman, F., Cox, R. F. A., Pepler, A., & Granic, I. (2012). A characteristic destabilization profile in parent-child interactions associated with treatment efficacy for aggressive children. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 16, 353-379. Pubmed: 22695153.
30. Linell, P., Gustavsson, L., & Juvonen, P. (1988). Interactional dominance in dyadic communication: A presentation of initiative-response analysis. Linguistics, 26, 415-442. doi: 10. 1515/ling. 1988. 26. 3. 415.
31. Louwerse, M. M., Dale, R., Bard, E. G., & Jeuniaux, P. (2012). Behavior matching in multimodal communication is synchronized. Cognitive Science, 1, 1-24. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1551-6709. 2012. 01269.
32. Marwan, N., Romano, M. C., Thiel, M., & Kurths, J. (2007). Recurrence plots for the analysis of complex systems. Physics Reports, 438(5-6), 237-329. doi: 10. 1016/j. physrep. 2006. 11. 001.
33. McConkey, R., Morris, I., & Purcell, M. (1999). Communications between staff and adults with intellectual disabilities in naturally occurring settings. Journal of Intellectual disabilities Research, 43, 194-205. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-2788. 1999. 00191. x.
34. McGarva, A. R., & Warner, R. M. (2003). Attraction and social coordination: Mutual entrainment of vocal activity rhythms. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32, 335-354. doi: 0090-6905/03/0500-0335/0.
35. McNeill, D. (1992). Hand and mind: What gestures reveal about thought. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
36. Miles, L. K., Nind, L. K., & Macrae, N. (2009). The rhythm of rapport: Interpersonal synchrony and social perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 585-589. doi: 10. 1016/j. jesp. 2009. 02. 002.
37. Moore, D. G. (2001). Reassessing emotion recognition performance in people with mental retardation: A review. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 106, 481-502. doi: 10. 1352/0895-8017(2001)106<0481: RERPIP>2. 0. CO;2.
38. Noldus. (2009). The observer XT. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Noldus Information Technology.
39. Novick, D., Hansen, B., & Ward, K. (1996). Coordinating turn-taking with gaze, Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-96), Philadelphia, PA, October, 1996, 3, 1888-91.
40. Reuzel, E., Embregts, P. J. C. M., Bosman, A. M. T., van Nieuwenhuijzen, M., & Jahoda, A. (2012). Interactional patterns between staff and clients with borderline to mild intellectual disabilities. The nature of staff client social interactions. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2788. 2011. 01515. x.
41. Richardson, D. C., & Dale, R. (2005). Looking to understand: the coupling between speakers' and listeners' eye movement and it's relationship to discourse comprehension. Cognitive Science, 29, 1045-1060. doi: 10. 1207/s15516709cog0000_29.
42. Richardson, D. C., Dale, R., & Kirkham, N. Z. (2007). The art of conversation is coordination. Psychological Science, 18, 407-413. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1467-9280. 2007. 01914. x.
43. Sacks, H. (1992). Lectures on conversation (Vol. II). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
44. Schmidt, R. C., Morr, S., Fitzpatrick, P. A., & Richardson, M. J. (2012). Measuring the dynamics of interactional synchrony. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 36, 263-279. doi: 10. 1007/s10919-012-0138-5.
45. Schmidt, R. C., & O'Brien, B. (1998). Modeling interpersonal coordination dynamics: Implications for a dynamical theory of developing systems. In P. C. Molenaar & K. Newell (Eds.), Dynamic systems and development: Beyond the metaphor (pp. 221-240). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
46. Sebanz, N., Bekkering, H., & Knoblich, G. (2006). Joint action: Bodies and minds moving together. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(2), 70-76. doi: 10. 1016/j. tics. 2005. 12. 009.
47. Shockley, K., Butwill, M., Zbilut, J. P., & Webber, C. L. (2002). Cross recurrence quantification of coupled oscillators. Physics Letters, 305, 59-69. doi: 10. 1016/S0375-9601(02)01411-1.
48. Shockley, K., Richardson, D. C., & Dale, R. (2009). Conversation and coordinative structures. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 305-319. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1756-8765. 2009. 01021. x.
49. Social Exclusion Unit. (2005). Improving services, improving lives: Evidence and key themes. Interim report. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
50. Street, R. L. (1984). Speech convergence and speech evaluation in fact finding interviews. Human Communication Research, 11, 139-169. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1468-2958. 1984. tb00043. x.
51. Tickle-Degnen, L., & Rosenthal, R. (1990). The nature of rapport and its nonverbal correlates. Psychological Inquiry, 1, 285-293. doi: 10. 1207/s15327965pli0104_1.
52. Trevarthen, C., & Daniel, S. (2005). Disorganized rhythm and synchrony: Early signs of autism and Rett syndrome. Brain and Development, 27, S25-S34. doi: 10. 1016/j. braindev. 2005. 03. 016.
53. van Baaren, R., Janssen, L., Chartrand, T., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2009). Where is the love? Social aspects of mimicry. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, 364, 2381-2389. doi: 10. 1098/rstb. 2009. 0057.
54. Von Heijne, G. (1987). Sequence analysis in molecular biology: Treasure trove or trivial pursuits?. San Diego, LA: Academic Press.
55. Warner, R. M. (1992). Sequential analysis of social interaction: Assessing internal versus social determinants of behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 51-60. doi: 10. 1037/0022-3514. 63. 1. 51.
56. Webber, C. L., Jr., & Zbilut, J. P., (2005). Recurrence quantification analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems. In M. A. Riley & G. C. van Orden (Eds.), Tutorials in contemporary nonlinear methods for the behavioral sciences (pp. 33-101). Retrieved March 1, 2005, from http://www. nsf. gov/sbe/bcs/pac/nmbs/nmbs. jsp.
57. Zaja, R., & Rojahn, J. (2008). Facial emotion recognition in intellectual disabilities. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 21, 441-444. doi: 10. 1097/YCO. 0b013e328305e5fd.
58. Zbilut, J. P., & Webber, C. L., Jr. (1992). Embeddings and delays as derived from quantification of recurrence plots. Physics Letters A, 171, 199-203. doi: 10. 1016/0375-9601(92)90426-M.
59. Zilber, D., Shaddock, A., Dowse, L., Rawlings, M., Guggenheimer, S., & Browne, F. (1994). Communication patterns in services for people with severe intellectual disabilities: Function, form, and responsiveness. Australian Journal of Human Communication Disorders, 22, 85-98.