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Human and macaque pairs employ different coordination strategies in a transparent decision game

Many real-world decisions in social contexts are made while observing a partner’s actions. To study dynamic interactions during such decisions, we developed a setup where two agents seated face-to-face to engage in game-theoretical tasks on a shared transparent touchscreen display (‘transparent game...

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Autores principales: Moeller, Sebastian, Unakafov, Anton M, Fischer, Julia, Gail, Alexander, Treue, Stefan, Kagan, Igor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9937648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36633125
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81641
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author Moeller, Sebastian
Unakafov, Anton M
Fischer, Julia
Gail, Alexander
Treue, Stefan
Kagan, Igor
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Fischer, Julia
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description Many real-world decisions in social contexts are made while observing a partner’s actions. To study dynamic interactions during such decisions, we developed a setup where two agents seated face-to-face to engage in game-theoretical tasks on a shared transparent touchscreen display (‘transparent games’). We compared human and macaque pairs in a transparent version of the coordination game ‘Bach-or-Stravinsky’, which entails a conflict about which of two individually-preferred opposing options to choose to achieve coordination. Most human pairs developed coordinated behavior and adopted dynamic turn-taking to equalize the payoffs. All macaque pairs converged on simpler, static coordination. Remarkably, two animals learned to coordinate dynamically after training with a human confederate. This pair selected the faster agent’s preferred option, exhibiting turn-taking behavior that was captured by modeling the visibility of the partner’s action before one’s own movement. Such competitive turn-taking was unlike the prosocial turn-taking in humans, who equally often initiated switches to and from their preferred option. Thus, the dynamic coordination is not restricted to humans but can occur on the background of different social attitudes and cognitive capacities in rhesus monkeys. Overall, our results illustrate how action visibility promotes the emergence and maintenance of coordination when agents can observe and time their mutual actions.
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spelling pubmed-99376482023-02-18 Human and macaque pairs employ different coordination strategies in a transparent decision game Moeller, Sebastian Unakafov, Anton M Fischer, Julia Gail, Alexander Treue, Stefan Kagan, Igor eLife Neuroscience Many real-world decisions in social contexts are made while observing a partner’s actions. To study dynamic interactions during such decisions, we developed a setup where two agents seated face-to-face to engage in game-theoretical tasks on a shared transparent touchscreen display (‘transparent games’). We compared human and macaque pairs in a transparent version of the coordination game ‘Bach-or-Stravinsky’, which entails a conflict about which of two individually-preferred opposing options to choose to achieve coordination. Most human pairs developed coordinated behavior and adopted dynamic turn-taking to equalize the payoffs. All macaque pairs converged on simpler, static coordination. Remarkably, two animals learned to coordinate dynamically after training with a human confederate. This pair selected the faster agent’s preferred option, exhibiting turn-taking behavior that was captured by modeling the visibility of the partner’s action before one’s own movement. Such competitive turn-taking was unlike the prosocial turn-taking in humans, who equally often initiated switches to and from their preferred option. Thus, the dynamic coordination is not restricted to humans but can occur on the background of different social attitudes and cognitive capacities in rhesus monkeys. Overall, our results illustrate how action visibility promotes the emergence and maintenance of coordination when agents can observe and time their mutual actions. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2023-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9937648/ /pubmed/36633125 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81641 Text en © 2023, Moeller et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Human and macaque pairs employ different coordination strategies in a transparent decision game
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topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9937648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36633125
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.81641
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