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Michael, John, Bogart, Kathleen, Tylén, Kristian, Krueger, Joel, Bech, Morten, Østergaard, John Rosendahl and Fusaroli, Riccardo (2015) Training in compensatory strategies enhances rapport in interactions involving people with Möbius Syndrome. Frontiers in Neurology, 6 . 213. doi:10.3389/fneur.2015.00213
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2015.00213
Abstract
In the exploratory study reported here, we tested the efficacy of an intervention designed to train teenagers with Möbius syndrome (MS) to increase the use of alternative communication strategies (e.g., gestures) to compensate for their lack of facial expressivity. Specifically, we expected the intervention to increase the level of rapport experienced in social interactions by our participants. In addition, we aimed to identify the mechanisms responsible for any such increase in rapport. In the study, five teenagers with MS interacted with three naïve participants without MS before the intervention, and with three different naïve participants without MS after the intervention. Rapport was assessed by self-report and by behavioral coders who rated videos of the interactions. Individual non-verbal behavior was assessed via behavioral coders, whereas verbal behavior was automatically extracted from the sound files. Alignment was assessed using cross recurrence quantification analysis and mixed-effects models. The results showed that observer-coded rapport was greater after the intervention, whereas self-reported rapport did not change significantly. Observer-coded gesture and expressivity increased in participants with and without MS, whereas overall linguistic alignment decreased. Fidgeting and repetitiveness of verbal behavior also decreased in both groups. In sum, the intervention may impact non-verbal and verbal behavior in participants with and without MS, increasing rapport as well as overall gesturing, while decreasing alignment.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Facial paralysis, Genetic disorders | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Frontiers in Neurology | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1664-2295 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 213 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3389/fneur.2015.00213 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | Aarhus universitet, Det Frie Forskningsråd [Danish Council for Independent Research], Sixth Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP6), Changing Faces (Organisation) , Denmark. Pindstrup Centret [The Pindstrup Centre] |
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