Juliane Honisch

University of Reading · School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences

Everyday social interactions require us to closely monitor, predict, and synchronise our movements with those of an interacting partner. Experimental studies of social synchrony typically examine the social-cognitive outcomes associated with synchrony, such as affiliation. On the other hand, research on the sensorimotor aspects of synchronisation g...

Haptic communication between humans plays an important role in society. Although this form of communication is ubiquitous at all levels of society and of human development, little is known about how synchronized coordination of motion between two persons leads to higher-order cognitive functions used in communication. In this study, we developed a...

To maintain synchrony in group activities, each individual within the group must continuously correct their movements to remain in time with the temporal cues available. Cues might originate from one or more members of the group. Current research suggests that when synchronising movements, individuals optimise their performance in terms of minimisi...

Perception is linked to action via two routes: a direct route based on affordance information in the environment and an indirect route based on semantic knowledge about objects. The present study explored the factors modulating the recruitment of the two routes, in particular which factors affecting the selection of paired objects. In Experiment 1,...

Behavioural synchrony, relative to asynchrony, appears to promote relationship-salutary outcomes (e.g., liking, cooperation). We explored the possibility that these effects are driven by the deleterious effects of asynchrony rather than the beneficial effects of synchrony. Based on the assumption that individuals tend to expect social interactions...

Behavioural synchrony, relative to asynchrony, appears to promote relationship-salutary outcomes (e.g., liking, cooperation). We explored the possibility that these effects are driven by the deleterious effects of asynchrony rather than the beneficial effects of synchrony. Based on the assumption that individuals tend to expect social interactions...

In order to implement reliable, safe and smooth human-robot object handover it will be necessary for service robots to identify non-verbal communication gestures in real-time. This study presents an analysis of the relative information content in the gestural features that together constitute a communication gesture. Based on this information theor...