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F M Miss1, J E C Adriaense1, J M Burkart2
1Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
|October 25, 2022
Summary
Co-representing actions is a key mechanism for joint action, emerging automatically without complex cognitive skills. Cooperative species flexibly suppress this co-representation when needed for successful collaboration.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Psychology
Background:
- Joint action is crucial for understanding human cognition.
- Theoretical concepts like shared intentionality are hard to study empirically.
- Co-representation of actions offers an operationalizable mechanism for joint action.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate co-representation as a fundamental mechanism of joint action.
- To determine if co-representation is a low-level or high-level cognitive process.
- To bridge the gap between joint action theory and empirical research.
Main Methods:
- Review of neurobiological, ontogenetic, and phylogenetic studies.
- Analysis of empirical findings on co-representation.
- Focus on the automaticity and flexibility of co-representation.
Main Results:
- Co-representation occurs automatically, not requiring advanced inhibitory skills or mentalistic understanding.
- Flexible suppression of co-representation is more developed in highly cooperative species.
- Cooperative species utilize cooperation markers like mutual gaze.
Conclusions:
- Co-representation is a foundational, low-level cognitive process for joint action.
- The flexible deployment of co-representation is key for successful cooperation.
- Further research can build upon this paradigm-driven approach to joint action.
Keywords:
Co-representationComparative researchCooperative breedingEvolution of cooperationJoint actionOntogenyPrimatesSelf-other integration and distinctionSocial cognitionMore Related Videos
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