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1 - What It Takes to Share a Task

Sharing versus Shaping Task Representations

from Part I - Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2016

By
Thomas Dolk  and
Wolfgang Prinz
Edited by
Sukhvinder S. Obhi  and
Emily S. Cross
Sukhvinder S. Obhi
Affiliation:
McMaster University, Ontario
Emily S. Cross
Affiliation:
Bangor University
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Summary

In this chapter we examine task representations in shared task settings like the joint (“social”) Simon task. Over the past decade, ideas pertaining to shared representations and co-representation have been advanced to account for performance in such settings (Knoblich & Sebanz, 2006; Knoblich, Butterfill, & Sebanz, 2011; Wenke et al., 2011). Here we argue that we can do without these notions. On the one hand, we show that shared representations cannot account for typical findings in shared task settings. This is the negative part. On the other hand, we show that task performance can be explained by the claim that individuals shape their individual task representations according to the needs of the shared task. This is the positive part. Consequentially, we claim that performance in shared task settings relies on shaping individual representations, not sharing common representations (Dolk et al., 2011; Dolk, Hommel, Prinz, & Liepelt, 2013).
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Shared Representations
Sensorimotor Foundations of Social Life
 , pp. 3 - 21
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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