Monitoring Individual and Joint Action Outcomes in Duet Music Performance

Loehr, Janeen D.; Kourtis, Dimitrios; Vesper, Cordula; Sebanz, Natalie; Knoblich, Günther

doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00388

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“…Kourtis et al, 2014;Meyer et al, 2013;Tsai et al, 2011;Vesper et al, 2013). For example, Loehr et al (2013) showed that pianists playing chords together distinguish errors which affect a pianist's own part only from errors which affect the harmony of the chord and so result in failure to achieve a collective goal. Richardson, Marsh, and Baron (2007) showed that acting together with another rather than alone can modulate how an individual grasps an object.…”

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“…Previous findings indicate that in joint actions such as playing a piano duet, clinking glasses, jumping together and moving an object, agents' motor representations and processes take into account relations between their own actions and others' in preparing and monitoring their actions (Kourtis, Knoblich, Wozniak, & Sebanz, 2014;Loehr et al, 2013;Meyer, van der Wel, & Hunnius, 2013;Tsai, Sebanz, & Knoblich, 2011;Vesper, van der Wel, Knoblich, & Sebanz, 2013). These findings motivated us to conjecture that participants in joint actions can represent collective goals motorically.…”

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Drawn together: When motor representations ground joint actions

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a b s t r a c tWhat enables individuals to act together? Recent discoveries suggest that a variety of mechanisms are involved. But something fundamental is yet to be investigated. In joint action, agents represent a collective goal, or so it is often assumed. But how, if at all, are collective goals represented in joint action and how do such representations impact performance? To investigate this question we adapted a bimanual paradigm, the circle-line drawing paradigm, to contrast two agents acting in parallel with two agents performing a joint action. Participants were required to draw lines or circles while observing circles or lines being drawn. The findings indicate that interpersonal motor coupling may occur in joint but not parallel action. This suggests that participants in joint actions can represent collective goals motorically.

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“…In a parallel vein, an EEG study [97] explored the representation of self and other during rhythmic joint action using a similar piano performance task to the one described above [91]. Pairs of pianists practiced each other's parts prior to the experiment, and then played the left-and right-hand part, respectively, while EEG was recorded.…”

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Rhythm in joint action: psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms for real-time interpersonal coordination

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2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Human interaction often requires simultaneous precision and flexibility in the coordination of rhythmic behaviour between individuals engaged in joint activity, for example, playing a musical duet or dancing with a partner. This review article addresses the psychological processes and brain mechanisms that enable such rhythmic interpersonal coordination. First, an overview is given of research on the cognitive-motor processes that enable individuals to represent joint action goals and to anticipate, attend and adapt to other's actions in real time. Second, the neurophysiological mechanisms that underpin rhythmic interpersonal coordination are sought in studies of sensorimotor and cognitive processes that play a role in the representation and integration of self- and other-related actions within and between individuals' brains. Finally, relationships between social–psychological factors and rhythmic interpersonal coordination are considered from two perspectives, one concerning how social-cognitive tendencies (e.g. empathy) affect coordination, and the other concerning how coordination affects interpersonal affiliation, trust and prosocial behaviour. Our review highlights musical ensemble performance as an ecologically valid yet readily controlled domain for investigating rhythm in joint action.

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“…Producing and learning music likely involves even greater EF demands. For example, music is most often played in coordination with others (Palmer, 2013), which requires switching between multiple auditory streams (Loehr, Kourtis, Vesper, Sebanz, & Knoblich, 2013) and adjusting to other performers (e.g., Loehr & Palmer, 2011;Moore & Chen, 2010). Thus music performance may be associated with relatively general switching advantages, and musicians have indeed been found to outperform non-musicians on switching tasks (Hanna-Pladdy & MacKay, 2011;Moradzadeh, Blumenthal, & Wiseheart, 2014; see also Bugos, Perlstein, McCrae, Brophy, & Bedenbaugh, 2007;Zuk, Benjamin, Kenyon, & Gaab, 2014).…”

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Tuning the mind: Exploring the connections between musical ability and executive functions

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A growing body of research suggests that musical experience and ability are related to a variety of cognitive abilities, including executive functioning (EF). However, it is not yet clear if these relationships are limited to specific components of EF, limited to auditory tasks, or reflect very general cognitive advantages. This study investigated the existence and generality of the relationship between musical ability and EFs by evaluating the musical experience and ability of a large group of participants and investigating whether this predicts individual differences on three different components of EF – inhibition, updating, and switching – in both auditory and visual modalities. Musical ability predicted better performance on both auditory and visual updating tasks, even when controlling for a variety of potential confounds (age, handedness, bilingualism, and socio-economic status). However, musical ability was not clearly related to inhibitory control and was unrelated to switching performance. These data thus show that cognitive advantages associated with musical ability are not limited to auditory processes, but are limited to specific aspects of EF. This supports a process-specific (but modality-general) relationship between musical ability and non-musical aspects of cognition.GRAMMY Foundatio

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Monitoring Individual and Joint Action Outcomes in Duet Music Performance

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Cited by 135 publications

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Drawn together: When motor representations ground joint actions

Drawn together: When motor representations ground joint actions

Rhythm in joint action: psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms for real-time interpersonal coordination

Tuning the mind: Exploring the connections between musical ability and executive functions

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