The joint flanker effect: sharing tasks with real and imagined co-actors

被引:136
作者
Atmaca, Silke [1 ]
Sebanz, Natalie [2 ]
Knoblich, Gunther [2 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Human Cognit & Brain Sci, Dept Psychol, Leipzig, Germany
[2] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Ctr Cognit, Donders Inst Brain Cognit & Behav, NL-6500 HE Nijmegen, Netherlands
关键词
Joint action; Task sharing; Shared representations; Action anticipation; STIMULUS-RESPONSE COMPATIBILITY; EVENT-RELATED FMRI; PERCEPTUAL LOAD; VISUAL-SEARCH; COORDINATION; INHIBITION; IDENTIFICATION; REPRESENTATION; MOVEMENTS; DYNAMICS;
D O I
10.1007/s00221-011-2709-9
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
The Eriksen flanker task (Eriksen and Eriksen in Percept Psychophys 16:143-149, 1974) was distributed among pairs of participants to investigate whether individuals take into account a co-actor's S-R mapping even when coordination is not required. Participants responded to target letters (Experiment 1) or colors (Experiment 2) surrounded by distractors. When performing their part of the task next to another person performing the complementary part of the task, participants responded more slowly to stimuli containing flankers that were potential targets for their co-actor (incompatible trials), compared to stimuli containing identical, compatible, or neutral flankers. This joint Flanker effect also occurred when participants merely believed to be performing the task with a co-actor (Experiment 3). Furthermore, Experiment 4 demonstrated that people form shared task representations only when they perceive their co-actor as intentionally controlling her actions. These findings substantiate and generalize earlier results on shared task representations and advance our understanding of the basic mechanisms subserving joint action.
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