Motion and Unconsciousness

Summary

Motion and Unconsciousness investigates how people coordinate their bodies during joint action and social interaction. The project focuses on the relationship between self and other representations, shared action and the behavioral mechanisms that contribute to the feeling of acting together.

Motion capture was used to record pairs of participants performing joint-action and social-interaction tasks, allowing quantitative analysis of body posture, motor coordination, synchronization and nonverbal behavior.

These behavioral measurements were combined with respiratory coupling and dual electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the bodily and neural mechanisms associated with interpersonal coordination and synchrony.

Partners

Agalma Foundation
Project coordination and experimental research framework.

Artanim
Motion capture, behavioral data processing and movement analysis.

University Hospitals of Geneva – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Experimental design and testing related to social interaction and interpersonal synchrony.

EPFL – Brain Mind Institute
Physiological data acquisition, including respiration and dual EEG.

Related Publications

Preissmann D, Charbonnier C, Chagué S, Antonietti JP, Llobera J, Ansermet F, Magistretti PJ. A motion capture study to measure the feeling of synchrony in romantic couples and in professional musicians, Front Psychol, 7:1673, 2016.
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Llobera J, Charbonnier C, Chagué S, Preissmann D, Antonietti JP, Ansermet F, Magistretti P. The Subjective Sensation of Synchrony: An Experimental Study, PLoS ONE, 11(2):e0147008, 2016.
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