title: Joint Action: Mental Representations, Shared Information and General Mechanisms for Coordinating with Others.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University (CEU) Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Cordula
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vesper
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies and Donders Center for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Ekaterina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Abramova
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bütepage
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) Reggio Emilia, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ciardo
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Crossey
authors.affiliation: Institute of Sports Science, Leibniz University of Hannover Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Effenberg
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Dayana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hristova
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: April
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karlinsky
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University (CEU) Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Luke
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McEllin
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Sari R R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Nijssen
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University (CEU) Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schmitz
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück Osnabrück, Germany.
authors.forename: Basil
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wahn
keywords: action prediction; coordination; culture; joint action; joint attention; sensorimotor communication; social interaction