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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Motor Control

Background:

  • Joint actions involve shared representations of actions.
  • Co-representation may influence action control, including response inhibition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if joint actions are harder to stop than solo actions.
  • To explore the neural mechanisms underlying response stopping in solo versus joint actions.

Main Methods:

  • A stop-signal task was adapted for solo and joint action conditions.
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to probe neural mechanisms.
  • Behavioral data on stopping performance were collected.

Main Results:

  • Participants took longer to stop planned joint actions than solo actions.
  • This joint action stopping cost was absent with a passive observer.
  • Joint stopping engaged a more selective neural suppression mechanism than solo stopping.

Conclusions:

  • Co-representation significantly impacts response inhibition, making joint actions harder to stop.
  • Solo actions rely on global inhibition, while joint actions utilize a slower, selective inhibition mechanism.
  • These findings highlight the distinct control processes governing individual versus shared actions.