Journal
JOURNAL OF MOTOR BEHAVIOR
Volume 43, Issue 4, Pages 329-332Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2011.592871
Keywords
action prediction; joint action; response selection; shared task representation
Funding
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
- Alberta Ingenuity Fund
- Lloyd and Florence Cooper Doctoral Scholarship in Integrated Medicine
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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It has been suggested that a shared task representation is used to predict a coactors' needs and that these predictions influence each coactor's response selection in a joint action task. The authors tested this idea using a joint action task in which participants passed a jug to a confederate under different conditions. They hypothesized that if participants predicted the needs of their coactor and planned their movement according to these predictions, the jug would be passed with the handle available to the confederate. Consistent with this hypothesis, the jug was passed with the handle available on 86% of the trials. This strategy may be adopted to improve the efficiency of the whole task as opposed to each individual's portion of the task.
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