Tap With Me: Interpersonal Motor Coordination and Sequence Learning
My experience working at the Perceptual Motor Dynamic laboratory and following through with a self-designed project taught me just as much about the research process as it did about the subject matter itself. While I learned a lot about social coordination and how important it is in human interactions, the most valuable experience I gained was learning how to come up with a laboratory procedure and carrying through with it until the end. I was able to gain several perspectives about how to write up a project from various researchers in my lab, including my mentor, which is invaluable experience I will be able to carry with me through grad school when I will surely be working on more self-designed experiences. That way, I will be able to run my own lab someday as a professional.
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The following is an overview of my project--
Tap With Me: Interpersonal Motor Coordination and Sequence Learning
Authors: Sheva Serota, Veronica Romero, and Michael J. Richardson
Abstract:
This study investigates the effects of interpersonal movement coordination on implicit motor learning and social connectedness. Using a touch-screen table- top display, participants were instructed to tap small blue targets in a specified sequence together with another co-participant. The tapping sequence was specified to one of the two participants by indicator lights situated above one of the participant’s targets. The tapping sequence consists of 550 taps that were either completely random or contained an 8 or 12 sequence pattern that was continuously repeated. Participants were instructed to complete the sequence at a self-selected pace, while coordinating their taps/movements together. Of particular interest was whether participants implicitly learned the imbedded motor sequences and whether this learning occurred for the follower via interpersonal coordination. Accordingly, the participants’ tapping movements were recorded during the experiment to measure (1) whether their tapping movements become faster over the course of a repeated sequence trial compared to the completely random sequence trial and (2) whether this increase was correlated with the stability of the interpersonal coordination that occurred. A group of individual participants also completed the experiment alone in order to obtain a baseline measure of motor sequence learning.
The above image represents the equipment we used to measure participants movement. This image represents my learning because it shows the various equipment I had to use in order to run participants and collect data, as well as helped me learn how to analyze data properly.
Tap With Me: Interpersonal Motor Coordination and Sequence Learning
Authors: Sheva Serota, Veronica Romero, and Michael J. Richardson
Abstract:
This study investigates the effects of interpersonal movement coordination on implicit motor learning and social connectedness. Using a touch-screen table- top display, participants were instructed to tap small blue targets in a specified sequence together with another co-participant. The tapping sequence was specified to one of the two participants by indicator lights situated above one of the participant’s targets. The tapping sequence consists of 550 taps that were either completely random or contained an 8 or 12 sequence pattern that was continuously repeated. Participants were instructed to complete the sequence at a self-selected pace, while coordinating their taps/movements together. Of particular interest was whether participants implicitly learned the imbedded motor sequences and whether this learning occurred for the follower via interpersonal coordination. Accordingly, the participants’ tapping movements were recorded during the experiment to measure (1) whether their tapping movements become faster over the course of a repeated sequence trial compared to the completely random sequence trial and (2) whether this increase was correlated with the stability of the interpersonal coordination that occurred. A group of individual participants also completed the experiment alone in order to obtain a baseline measure of motor sequence learning.
The above image represents the equipment we used to measure participants movement. This image represents my learning because it shows the various equipment I had to use in order to run participants and collect data, as well as helped me learn how to analyze data properly.
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