The role of shared visual information for joint action coordination.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has identified a number of coordination processes that enable people to perform joint actions. But what determines which coordination processes joint action partners rely on in a given situation? The present study tested whether varying the shared visual information available to co-actors can trigger a shift in coordination processes. Pairs of participants performed a movement task that required them to synchronously arrive at a target from separate starting locations. When participants in a pair received only auditory feedback about the time their partner reached the target they held their movement duration constant to facilitate coordination. When they received additional visual information about each other's movements they switched to a fundamentally different coordina

SUBMITTER: Vesper C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4918098 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature