Sociomotor action control

Kunde, Wilfried; Weller, Lisa; Pfister, Roland

doi:10.3758/s13423-017-1316-6

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“…Recent studies have begun to investigate whether effectbased action control also extends to the behavior of other agents as possible action effects-so-called sociomotor actions (Kunde, Weller, & Pfister, 2017; for corresponding empirical findings, see Flach, Press, Badets, & Heyes, 2010;Kunde, Lozo, & Neumann, 2011;Müller, 2016;Pfister, Dignath, Hommel, & Kunde, 2013). In the study of , two participants worked in pairs.…”

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What or when? The impact of anticipated social action effects is driven by action-effect compatibility, not delay

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Dignath

et al. 2017

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Motor actions are facilitated if they are foreseeably being imitated rather than counterimitated by social partners. Such beneficial effects of anticipated imitation have been explained in terms of compatibility between one's own actions and their anticipated consequences. Previous demonstrations of these effects might alternatively be explained by consistently faster partner responses for imitative than for nonimitative actions, however. This study contrasts both explanations by using virtual coactors to disentangle the contributions of anticipated action-effect compatibility and anticipated action-effect delay. The data of two experiments support previous theoretical assumptions by showing that the effects of anticipated imitation are indeed driven by compatibility rather than delay.

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What or when? The impact of anticipated social action effects is driven by action-effect compatibility, not delay

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Weller

Dignath

et al. 2017

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“…Although many studies have focused on the sense of agency during motor actions (e.g., Chambon, Sidarus, & Haggard, 2014), less is known about this phenomenon in social interactions. Consistent with hypothesized models that ascribe the experience of agency to the ability to link the action to the corresponding outcomes (Blakemore, Wolpert, & Frith, 2000), a similar connection can be expected for social responses of another person after initiating a social action (Friston & Frith, 2015;Kunde, Weller, & Pfister, 2018;Wolpert, Doya, & Kawato, 2003). In this article, we will refer to the concept of agency within a social interaction as social agency (Brandi, Kaifel, Bolis, & Schilbach, 2019;Recht & Grynszpan, 2019).…”

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A naturalistic paradigm simulating gaze-based social interactions for the investigation of social agency

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Sense of agency describes the experience of being the cause of one's own actions and the resulting effects. In a social interaction, one's actions may also have a perceivable effect on the actions of others. In this article, we refer to the experience of being responsible for the behavior of others as social agency, which has important implications for the success or failure of social interactions. Gaze-contingent eyetracking paradigms provide a useful tool to analyze social agency in an experimentally controlled manner, but the current methods are lacking in terms of their ecological validity. We applied this technique in a novel task using video stimuli of real gaze behavior to simulate a gaze-based social interaction. This enabled us to create the impression of a live interaction with another person while being able to manipulate the gaze contingency and congruency shown by the simulated interaction partner in a continuous manner. Behavioral data demonstrated that participants believed they were interacting with a real person and that systematic changes in the responsiveness of the simulated partner modulated the experience of social agency. More specifically, gaze contingency (temporal relatedness) and gaze congruency (gaze direction relative to the participant's gaze) influenced the explicit sense of being responsible for the behavior of the other. In general, our study introduces a new naturalistic task to simulate gaze-based social interactions and demonstrates that it is suitable to studying the explicit experience of social agency.

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“…Anticipation. The sociomotor framework (Kunde et al, 2018) postulated that much of the anticipation observed in social interactions can be attributed to a general mechanism that governs actions in individual and social contexts alike. In this view, actions are represented in terms of their effects, so executing an action in a social context involves anticipating the response that this action typically evokes in others.…”

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“…For instance, participants are known to initiate a button-press more quickly when it is followed by a spatially compatible light effect (e.g., a right button-press followed by a light on the right side), as compared to an incompatible light effect (e.g., a right button-press followed by a light on the left side; Kunde, 2001; see also Horváth, Bíró, & Neszmélyi, 2018;Kunde, Koch, & Hoffmann, 2004;Pfister, Janczyk, Wirth, Dignath, & Kunde, 2014). Importantly, the sociomotor framework (Kunde et al, 2018) holds that such mechanism of action planning can be extended to social interactions, i.e., an action can also become associated with the behavior that it typically evokes in others. Under this premise, agents may represent their action in terms of the expected response of their interaction partner, and therefore, in social contexts, action execution should come with an anticipation of the partner's upcoming response.…”

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Action–effect anticipation and temporal adaptation in social interactions.

Lelonkiewicz

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Weller

et al. 2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Interacting agents may anticipate their partner's upcoming response and include it in their action plan. In turn, observing an overt response can trigger agents to adapt. But while anticipation and adaptation are known to shape action control, their interplay in social interactions remains largely unexplored. In four experiments, we asked how both of these mechanisms could contribute to one striking phenomenon: Agents initiate actions faster when they know their partner will produce a compatible rather than an incompatible response. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the compatibility between agents' actions and partners' responses, and investigated the interplay between adaptation and anticipation within the same dyadic interaction. In Experiments 2-4 we isolated the contribution of each of the two mechanisms by having agents interact with virtual partners whose responses could be experimentally controlled. We found that adaptation and anticipation exert parallel but independent effects on action execution: Participants initiated their actions more quickly when the upcoming partner response was compatible and, independently, when their partner had responded more quickly on the preceding trial. These findings elucidate models of action control in social interactions.This study suggests that our behavior in social interactions is affected by a tendency to anticipate how our interaction partner will respond and, independently, by a tendency to adapt to the speed of their previous responses. These findings help shed light on the mechanisms that allow people to coordinate with each other in social interactions.

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Sociomotor action control

Cited by 48 publications

References 134 publications

What or when? The impact of anticipated social action effects is driven by action-effect compatibility, not delay

What or when? The impact of anticipated social action effects is driven by action-effect compatibility, not delay

A naturalistic paradigm simulating gaze-based social interactions for the investigation of social agency

Action–effect anticipation and temporal adaptation in social interactions.

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