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Motor Coordination and Strategic Cooperation in Joint Action.
Solène Le Bars1,2,3, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde1,2, Valentin Wyart2,4
1Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).
Psychological Science
|April 21, 2022
Summary
The sense of agency in joint action depends on both motor and strategic factors. Motor control dominance can reduce prosocial behaviors during collaboration.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Social Psychology
- Human-Computer Interaction
Background:
- Joint action necessitates both motor coordination and strategic cooperation.
- These aspects of collaboration have historically been studied in isolation.
- Understanding their interplay is crucial for explaining human social interaction.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how motor and strategic factors influence the sense of agency in joint action.
- To explore the relationship between motor control dominance and prosocial behaviors.
- To determine if agency perception integrates low-level motor and high-level strategic information.
Main Methods:
- Fifty pairs of adult participants engaged in a novel collaborative task.
- The task manipulated levels of motor noise (affecting coordination) and strategic noise (affecting cooperation).
- Measures assessed individual and joint sense of agency, and prosocial strategy use.
Main Results:
- Self-agency perception was primarily driven by motor cues.
- Joint agency perception was predominantly influenced by strategic cues.
- Dominant motor control during joint action led to decreased prosocial strategies.
Conclusions:
- The sense of agency in joint action is differentially sensitive to motor and strategic information.
- Strategic cues are paramount for joint agency, likely due to co-representation of partners' goals.
- Motor control characteristics can impact the strategic, prosocial dimension of human interaction.
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