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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 18, Issue 12, Pages 1058-1062Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.02025.x
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Corepresenting actions performed by conspecifics is essential to understanding their goals, inferring their mental states, and cooperating with them. It has recently been demonstrated that joint-action effects in a Simon task provide a good index for corepresentation. In the present study, we investigated whether corepresentation is restricted to biological agents or also occurs for nonbiological events. Participants performed a Simon task either with an image of a human hand or with a wooden analogue. The Simon-like effect emerged only when participants coacted with a biological agent. The lack of the joint-action effect when participants interacted with a wooden hand indicates that the human corepresentation system is biologically tuned.
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