Synchrony as a measure of conversation difficulty: Movement coherence increases with background noise level and complexity in dyads and triads

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About the Authors

Lauren V. Hadley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Hearing Sciences—Scottish Section, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Jamie A. Ward

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Background signal noise
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Coherence
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Speech
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Behavior
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Motor system
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Speech signal processing
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