What is Shared in Joint Action? Issues of Co-representation, Response Conflict, and Agent Identification

Dorit Wenke, Silke Atmaca, Antje Holländer, Roman Liepelt, Pamela Baess, Wolfgang Prinz

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Abstract

When sharing a task with another person that requires turn taking, as in doubles games of table tennis, performance on the shared task is similar to performing the whole task alone. This has been taken to indicate that humans co-represent their partner's task share, as if it were their own. Task co-representation allows prediction of the other's responses when it is the other's turn, and leads to response conflict in joint interference tasks. However, data from our lab cast doubt on the view that task co-representation and resulting response conflict are the only or even primary source of effects observed in task sharing.
Original languageGerman
Title of host publicationReview of Philosophy and Psychology
Number of pages26
Volume2
Publication date2011
Pages147-172
ISBN (Print)1878-5158
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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