My research concerns the sensorimotor processes that underlie human communication. In particular, I am interested how people respond to the sound of another’s actions, reacting to their expressive intentions and spontaneously synchronizing with their movements. I take an eclectic approach, drawing on theories from music cognition, dynamical systems, motor control, speech perception and speech gestures; I employ a range of statistical tools (mixed effects models, circular statistics, dyadic analysis, longitudinal and time-series methods, bootstrapping); and I draw from several areas of applied mathematics (signal processing, fractals, non-linear dynamical systems, and surrogate methods). I have used these techniques to examine how people coordinate their movements with each other and to examine the complex web of relationships between music, movement, and sound.
