{"id":50088,"date":"2021-08-04T19:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/?p=50088"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T17:56:19","slug":"interpersonal-physiological-synchrony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/interpersonal-physiological-synchrony\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpersonal physiological synchrony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Photocredit: Chlo\u00eb Ellingson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is challenging to determine the level of connection within a dyad if one person has minimal ability to move or speak.\u00a0 Perceiving dynamic levels of interpersonal connection is particularly important for caregivers of non-communicative individuals and has the potential to improve quality of care and quality of life for both members of the dyad.\u00a0 Physiological synchrony has emerged as a novel tool for assessing moments of connection between two individuals.\u00a0 In this project, we aim to explore different ways of calculating interpersonal synchrony between individuals with dementia and their caregivers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recorded three autonomic nervous system (ANS) signals using biomusic technology from individuals with dementia and their caregivers as they participated in a movement program.\u00a0 The physiological signals of all participants were synchronized to a video recording, which was analyzed to identify observed moments of interpersonal connection.\u00a0 We are exploring a measure of physiological concordance (the single session index), and an information theory based metric (normalized symbolic transfer entropy) to characterize their patterns with respect to these observed moments of connection.\u00a0 Our hypothesis is that the measures will provide complementary insights to the dynamics of interpersonal connections, which can be extended to individuals with advanced dementia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This project is currently being led by Dannie Fu and Erica Flaten, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and is funded by a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/professors-professeurs\/grants-subs\/dgigp-psigp_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photocredit: Chlo\u00eb Ellingson It is challenging to determine the level of connection within a dyad if one person has minimal ability to move or speak.\u00a0 Perceiving dynamic levels of interpersonal connection is particularly important for caregivers of non-communicative individuals and has the potential to improve quality of care and quality of life for both members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":50084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biomusic","category-current-projects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50197,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088\/revisions\/50197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}