Joint Action: Mental Representations, Shared Information and General Mechanisms for Coordinating with Others
Year: 2017
Type: review
Abstract: In joint action, multiple people coordinate their actions to perform a task together. This often requires precise temporal and spatial coordination. How do co-actors achieve this? How do they coordinate their actions toward a shared task goal? Here, we provide an overview of the mental representations involved in joint action, discuss how co-actors share sensorimotor information and what general mechanisms support coordination with others. By deliberately extending the review to aspects such as the cultural context in which a joint action takes place, we pay tribute to the complex and variable nature of this social phenomenon.
Source: Frontiers in Psychology
Institutions: Central European University, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Centre for Cognition, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, University of Birmingham, Leibniz University Hannover, University of Vienna, University of British Columbia, Osnabrück University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,391
OpenAlex ID: W2561500337