Despite its many twists and turns, the arc of cognitive science generally bends toward
progress, thanks to its interdisciplinary nature. By glancing at the last few decades of …

This paper reviews the recent history of a subset of research in dynamical cognitive science,
in particular that subset that allies itself with the sciences of complexity and casts cognitive …

The literature on social interactions has shown that participants coordinate not only at the
behavioral but also at the physiological and neural levels, and that this coordination gives a …

Creativity is sometimes understood as the individual, mental creation of novelty which is
then imposed as form onto a material substrate. On this view, constraints would feature only …

Abstract Language is intrinsically multimodal. Speakers use gestures, prosody, gaze, and
facial expressions as cues that complement and expand the meaning expressed in their …

A central question in social cognition research is how people coordinate their bodily
rhythms, and how important reciprocity of interaction is for interpersonal coordination …

Dominant theoretical accounts of interpersonal synchrony, the temporal coordination of
biobehavioral processes between several individuals, have employed a linear approach …

Conversational turn taking in humans involves incredibly rapid responding. The timing
mechanisms underpinning such responses have been heavily debated, including questions …

Gestures and speech are clearly synchronized in many ways. However, previous studies
have shown that the semantic similarity between gestures and speech breaks down as …

A large program of research has aimed to ground large-scale cultural phenomena in
processes taking place within individual minds. For example, investigating whether …