Joint action goals reduce visuomotor interference effects from a partner's incongruent actions.

ABSTRACT: Joint actions often require agents to track others' actions while planning and executing physically incongruent actions of their own. Previous research has indicated that this can lead to visuomotor interference effects when it occurs outside of joint action. How is this avoided or overcome in joint actions? We hypothesized that when joint action partners represent their actions as interrelated components of a plan to bring about a joint action goal, each partner's movements need not be represented in relation to distinct, incongruent proximal goals. Instead they can be represented in relation to a single proximal goal - especially if the movements are, or appear to be, mechanically linked to a more distal joint action goal. To test this, we implemented a paradigm in which participants pro

SUBMITTER: Clarke S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6817939 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature