Understanding joint action: Current theoretical and empirical approaches

Wel, Robrecht P. R. D. van der; Becchio, Cristina; Curioni, Arianna; Wolf, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103285

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“…The current landscape of research focussing on ‘real’ social interactions is one of new, exciting and innovative methodological techniques and paradigms. Yet, at the current time the focus of such research is limited to relatively specific research areas such as social attention [ 14 , 16 ], joint action [ 65 ] and conversation [ 44 ]. As highlighted throughout this review, studies across these areas have provided an understanding of how critical it is to study social behaviour within social contexts and a key understanding now emerging is that interactive processes are not just merely a context in which behaviour happens.…”

Section: Moving Beyond Social Attention: the Effect Of Social Presenc...mentioning

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I see you, you see me: the impact of social presence on social interaction processes in autistic and non-autistic people

Freeth

Morgan

2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Environments that require social interaction are complex, challenging and sometimes experienced as overwhelming by autistic people. However, all too often theories relating to social interaction processes are created, and interventions are proposed, on the basis of data collected from studies that do not involve genuine social encounters nor do they consider the perception of social presence to be a potentially influential factor. In this review, we begin by considering why face-to-face interaction research is important in this field. We then discuss how the perception of social agency and social presence can influence conclusions about social interaction processes. We then outline some insights gained from face-to-face interaction research conducted with both autistic and non-autistic people. We finish by considering the impact of social presence on cognitive processes more broadly, including theory of mind. Overall, we demonstrate that choice of stimuli in studies assessing social interaction processes has the potential to substantially alter conclusions drawn. Ecological validity matters and social presence, in particular, is a critical factor that fundamentally impacts social interaction processes in both autistic and non-autistic people. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction’.

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Section: Moving Beyond Social Attention: the Effect Of Social Presenc...mentioning

confidence: 99%

I see you, you see me: the impact of social presence on social interaction processes in autistic and non-autistic people

Freeth

Morgan

2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Measures of conversational entrainment (i.e., synchronization between speakers [64]) based on physical properties of speech (e.g., rate, rhythm, pitch and pause length) can be considered based on the similarity between two speakers' temporal windows in which alignment occurs [65]. The second class of measures includes non-verbal readouts such as facial [5] and motor behavioural matching [66], bodily synergy [67], joint action [68] and motion energy [69]. Of note, behavioural matching can be either implicit (mimicry) or explicit (imitation) [5] and either symmetrical or antisymmetrical [60].…”

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Disorganized communication and social dysfunction in schizophrenia: Emerging concepts and methods

Olarewaju¹,

Dumas²,

Palaniyappan³

2023

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Purpose of review: In this review, we embrace the emerging field of second-person neuroscience to address disorganization in schizophrenia. We argue that the focus of interest for disorganization is the interpersonal space where shared mental processes (‘social mind’) occur based on the bio-behavioural synchrony between two (or more) interacting people. We lay out several bio-behavioural measures that can capture the component parts of this process. In particular, we highlight the real-time imaging technology of hyperscanning that enables multi-person analysis of naturalistic social interaction. We illustrate how these measures can be used in empirical studies by posing disorganization as a problem of interpersonal processing. Recent findings: Traditionally, disorganized speech and behaviour have been studied as the product of hidden cognitive processes (‘private mind’). A dysfunction in these processes was attributed to the brain afflicted by the illness (‘brain-bound mechanisms’). But this approach has contributed to challenges in measuring and quantifying disorganization. Consequently, the single-brain focus has not provided satisfactory clarity or led to effective treatments for persistent social dysfunction in schizophrenia.Summary: Social dysfunction is a core feature of schizophrenia. This dysfunction arises from disorganized interpersonal interaction that typifies the social profile of affected individuals. We outline challenges in employing several emerging concepts and methods and how they can be addressed to investigate the mechanisms of social dysfunction in schizophrenia.

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“…Here, we highlight coordinative AO + MI (coordAO + MI) as a further, fascinating scenario for study. CoordAO + MI can be regarded as a special case of joint action (Sebanz & Knoblich, 2021;van der Wel et al, 2021), because the observer imagines responding to, or performing with the actions of another person. In coordAO + MI, however, one's own action is not executed, as it would be in joint action.…”

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Enhancing motor imagery practice using synchronous action observation

Eaves

Hodges

Buckingham

et al. 2022

Psychological Research

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In this paper, we discuss a variety of ways in which practising motor actions by means of motor imagery (MI) can be enhanced via synchronous action observation (AO), that is, by AO + MI. We review the available research on the (mostly facilitatory) behavioural effects of AO + MI practice in the early stages of skill acquisition, discuss possible theoretical explanations, and consider several issues related to the choice and presentation schedules of suitable models. We then discuss considerations related to AO + MI practice at advanced skill levels, including expertise effects, practical recommendations such as focussing attention on specific aspects of the observed action, using just-ahead models, and possible effects of the perspective in which the observed action is presented. In section “Coordinative AO + MI”, we consider scenarios where the observer imagines performing an action that complements or responds to the observed action, as a promising and yet under-researched application of AO + MI training. In section “The dual action simulation hypothesis of AO + MI”, we review the neurocognitive hypothesis that AO + MI practice involves two parallel action simulations, and we consider opportunities for future research based on recent neuroimaging work on parallel motor representations. In section “AO + MI training in motor rehabilitation”, we review applications of AO, MI, and AO + MI training in the field of neurorehabilitation. Taken together, this evidence-based, exploratory review opens a variety of avenues for future research and applications of AO + MI practice, highlighting several clear advantages over the approaches of purely AO- or MI-based practice.

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Understanding joint action: Current theoretical and empirical approaches

Cited by 18 publications

References 46 publications

I see you, you see me: the impact of social presence on social interaction processes in autistic and non-autistic people

I see you, you see me: the impact of social presence on social interaction processes in autistic and non-autistic people

Disorganized communication and social dysfunction in schizophrenia: Emerging concepts and methods

Enhancing motor imagery practice using synchronous action observation

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