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Human behavior training in improvisational theater has shown extensivebehavioral and health benefits. Improved empathy measures in medical students,improved behavior outcome in patients with autism and a reduced recidivism rateare among the many benefits attributed to improvisational theater training.However, measuring tangible outcomes of changed behavior is challenging andusually requires multiple sessions or months of training. One of the principaltenets of improvisational theater is to actively listen and collaborativelyallow a scene partner to talk and provide equal input as needed. Here wemeasured human speech epochs and asked if a month of weekly improvisationaltheater training would reflect in speech epoch assays. We found a significantdecrease in speech epoch durations after one month of weekly training. Therewas no change in epoch durations on the same day, suggesting it to be a stableparameter over a day, but amenable to modulation over a month of training. Theoverall rhythm of speech epochs remained unchanged but durations of discretelow frequency speech volleys increased. Moreover, training improved regularityof adjacent speech epoch durations, suggesting a better sharing of speakingfocus by matching speech time to the previous speech epoch duration. Our assayprovides a proof-of-concept study of empathy-relevant tractable speech epochparameters associated with changes in a month after human behavior training.

Human Behavior Plasticity Measured in Speech Epochs: A Proof-Of-Concept Study