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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 183-188Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0963721410370131
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social interaction; kinematics; cooperation; competition; communication; motor control
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Humans spend most of their time interacting with other people. It is the motor organization subtending these social interactions that forms the main theme of this article. We review recent experimental studies testing whether it is possible to differentiate the kinematics of an action performed by an agent acting in isolation from the kinematics of the very same action performed within a social context. The results indicate that social context shapes action planning and that in the context of a social interaction, flexible online adjustments take place between partners. These observations provide novel insights on the social dimension of motor planning and control.
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