Abstract
A central issue in the study of joint task
performance has been one of whether coacting
individuals perform their partner’s
part of the task as if it were their own. The
present study addressed this issue by
using joint task switching. A pair of actors
shared two tasks that were presented in a
random order, whereby the relevant task
and actor were cued on each trial.
Responses produced action effects that
were either shared or separate between
co-actors. When co-actors produced
separate action effects, switch costs were
obtained within the same actor (i.e., when
the same actor performed consecutive
trials) but not between co-actors (when
different actors performed consecutive
trials), implying that actors did not perform
their co-actor’s part. When the same
action effects were shared between coactors,
however, switch costs were also
obtained between co-actors, implying that
actors did perform their co-actor’s part.
The results indicated that shared action
effects induce task-set sharing between
co-acting individuals.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 113-120 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Cognition |
Volume | 165 |
Issue number | 165 |
Early online date | 20 May 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2017 |
Keywords
- Action effect
- Co-representation
- Joint performance
- Joint task switching
- Response-effect compatibility
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Dr HELEN WALL
- Psychology - Senior Lecturer in Psychology
- Health Research Institute
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