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Simily Sabu¹, Arianna Curioni¹, Cordula Vesper^2,3

¹Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

|October 29, 2020

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In joint motor learning, partner variability impacts performance. Predictability of partner’s movements is key, as predictable variability enhances individual and joint action, while unpredictable variability hinders it.

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Area of Science:

Motor control and learning
Human-robot interaction
Cognitive neuroscience

Background:

Individual motor variability influences motor task learning rates, with higher variability linked to faster learning.
The regulation of motor variability during joint actions with a perturbing partner remains underexplored.
Understanding how partners' movement variability affects joint performance is crucial for collaborative tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how partner's movement variability influences individual and joint motor learning.
To determine the role of predictability in modulating the effects of partner variability on performance.
To examine the regulation of self-variability in response to partner's movement characteristics.

Main Methods:

Participants performed a joint motor task with a confederate exhibiting controlled levels of movement variability.
Haptic coupling translated partner's variability into force perturbations, influencing participant movements.
Experiments manipulated the variability and predictability (order, magnitude, direction) of force perturbations.

Main Results:

Participants adapted their own movement variability in response to partner's actions.
High partner variability, especially when unpredictable, impaired individual performance (movement accuracy).
Predictability of partner's force perturbations mitigated negative impacts of variability on individual performance.
Joint performance improved with a highly variable partner only when their movements were partially predictable.
High variability partners led to greater flexibility and resilience when their movements were predictable.

Conclusions:

Individuals selectively utilize their own or their partner's variability based on movement predictability.
Predictable partner variability can enhance individual performance in joint motor tasks.
Optimal joint action performance depends on a strategic interplay between individual and partner variability, modulated by predictability.