Workshop: Interpersonal coordination and phonetic convergence

When humans interact they typically show converging patterns of coordinated behavior, as in walking in step, postural sway or synchronized applause. Interpersonal convergence has also been found in speech when speakers interact inconversation. The aim of this one-day satellite workshop is to review recent advances into such research questions such as:

What are the underlying mechanisms that cause humans to mutually adapt?
What factors facilitate or impede convergence and entrainment?
Which processes and levels of the production system are affected?

The scientific program will consist of oral presentations and a poster session addressing these questions. Contributions are invited to these and related topics concerning interpersonal adaptation in human behavior, brain-to-brain coupling, perception-production links across speakers, interaction in conversation, phonetic entrainment, et cetera.

Invited speaker: Ivana Konvalinka (Title: Synchronized and complementary mechanisms in tightly-coupled interactions)

Please send a 2-page abstract (incl. figures and references) to christine.mooshammer@hu-berlin.de