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Spontaneous adaptation explains why people act faster when being imitated
The human ability to perform joint actions is often attributed to high-level cognitive processes. For example, the finding that action leaders act faster when imitated by their partners has been interpreted as evidence for anticipation of the other’s actions (Pfister, Dignath, Hommel, & Kunde, 2...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486872/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27531213 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1141-3 |
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author | Lelonkiewicz, Jarosław R. Gambi, Chiara |
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description | The human ability to perform joint actions is often attributed to high-level cognitive processes. For example, the finding that action leaders act faster when imitated by their partners has been interpreted as evidence for anticipation of the other’s actions (Pfister, Dignath, Hommel, & Kunde, 2013). In two experiments, we showed that a low-level mechanism can account for this finding. Action leaders were faster when imitated than when counterimitated, but only if they could observe their partner’s actions (Exp. 1). Crucially, when due to our manipulation the partner’s imitative actions became slower than the counterimitative actions, leaders also became slower when they were imitated, and faster when counterimitated (Exp. 2). Our results suggest that spontaneous temporal adaptation is a key mechanism in joint action tasks. We argue for a reconsideration of other phenomena that have traditionally been attributed solely to high-level processes. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.3758/s13423-016-1141-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-54868722017-07-17 Spontaneous adaptation explains why people act faster when being imitated Lelonkiewicz, Jarosław R. Gambi, Chiara Psychon Bull Rev Brief Report The human ability to perform joint actions is often attributed to high-level cognitive processes. For example, the finding that action leaders act faster when imitated by their partners has been interpreted as evidence for anticipation of the other’s actions (Pfister, Dignath, Hommel, & Kunde, 2013). In two experiments, we showed that a low-level mechanism can account for this finding. Action leaders were faster when imitated than when counterimitated, but only if they could observe their partner’s actions (Exp. 1). Crucially, when due to our manipulation the partner’s imitative actions became slower than the counterimitative actions, leaders also became slower when they were imitated, and faster when counterimitated (Exp. 2). Our results suggest that spontaneous temporal adaptation is a key mechanism in joint action tasks. We argue for a reconsideration of other phenomena that have traditionally been attributed solely to high-level processes. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.3758/s13423-016-1141-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2016-08-16 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5486872/ /pubmed/27531213 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1141-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Lelonkiewicz, Jarosław R. Gambi, Chiara Spontaneous adaptation explains why people act faster when being imitated |
title | Spontaneous adaptation explains why people act faster when being imitated |
title_full | Spontaneous adaptation explains why people act faster when being imitated |
title_fullStr | Spontaneous adaptation explains why people act faster when being imitated |
title_full_unstemmed | Spontaneous adaptation explains why people act faster when being imitated |
title_short | Spontaneous adaptation explains why people act faster when being imitated |
title_sort | spontaneous adaptation explains why people act faster when being imitated |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486872/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27531213 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1141-3 |
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