Measuring rhythms of vocal interactions: a proof of principle in harbour seal pups
Rhythmic patterns in interactive contexts characterize human behaviours such as conversational turn-taking. These timed patterns are also present in other animals, and often described as rhythm. Understanding fine-grained temporal adjustments in interaction requires complementary quantitative method...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:9985970 2023-05-15T16:33:35+02:00 Measuring rhythms of vocal interactions: a proof of principle in harbour seal pups Anichini, Marianna de Reus, Koen Hersh, Taylor A. Valente, Daria Salazar-Casals, Anna Berry, Caroline Keller, Peter E. Ravignani, Andrea 2023-04-24 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9985970/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36871583 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0477 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9985970/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36871583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0477 © 2023 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Articles Text 2023 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0477 2023-03-12T01:58:34Z Rhythmic patterns in interactive contexts characterize human behaviours such as conversational turn-taking. These timed patterns are also present in other animals, and often described as rhythm. Understanding fine-grained temporal adjustments in interaction requires complementary quantitative methodologies. Here, we showcase how vocal interactive rhythmicity in a non-human animal can be quantified using a multi-method approach. We record vocal interactions in harbour seal pups (Phoca vitulina) under controlled conditions. We analyse these data by combining analytical approaches, namely categorical rhythm analysis, circular statistics and time series analyses. We test whether pups' vocal rhythmicity varies across behavioural contexts depending on the absence or presence of a calling partner. Four research questions illustrate which analytical approaches are complementary versus orthogonal. For our data, circular statistics and categorical rhythms suggest that a calling partner affects a pup's call timing. Granger causality suggests that pups predictively adjust their call timing when interacting with a real partner. Lastly, the ADaptation and Anticipation Model estimates statistical parameters for a potential mechanism of temporal adaptation and anticipation. Our analytical complementary approach constitutes a proof of concept; it shows feasibility in applying typically unrelated techniques to seals to quantify vocal rhythmic interactivity across behavioural contexts. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction’. Text harbour seal Phoca vitulina PubMed Central (PMC) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 378 1875 |
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Rhythmic patterns in interactive contexts characterize human behaviours such as conversational turn-taking. These timed patterns are also present in other animals, and often described as rhythm. Understanding fine-grained temporal adjustments in interaction requires complementary quantitative methodologies. Here, we showcase how vocal interactive rhythmicity in a non-human animal can be quantified using a multi-method approach. We record vocal interactions in harbour seal pups (Phoca vitulina) under controlled conditions. We analyse these data by combining analytical approaches, namely categorical rhythm analysis, circular statistics and time series analyses. We test whether pups' vocal rhythmicity varies across behavioural contexts depending on the absence or presence of a calling partner. Four research questions illustrate which analytical approaches are complementary versus orthogonal. For our data, circular statistics and categorical rhythms suggest that a calling partner affects a pup's call timing. Granger causality suggests that pups predictively adjust their call timing when interacting with a real partner. Lastly, the ADaptation and Anticipation Model estimates statistical parameters for a potential mechanism of temporal adaptation and anticipation. Our analytical complementary approach constitutes a proof of concept; it shows feasibility in applying typically unrelated techniques to seals to quantify vocal rhythmic interactivity across behavioural contexts. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction’. |
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Anichini, Marianna de Reus, Koen Hersh, Taylor A. Valente, Daria Salazar-Casals, Anna Berry, Caroline Keller, Peter E. Ravignani, Andrea |
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Measuring rhythms of vocal interactions: a proof of principle in harbour seal pups |
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9985970/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36871583 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0477 |
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