Joint Action with Icub: a Successful Adaptation of a Paradigm of Cognitive Neuroscience in HRI

Collective physical activity in the context of team sports and group movement, music-dance and exercise is widely thought to generate and strengthen social bonds among participants. Causal accounts of these effects remain narrow and imprecise, however. Here we develop and test a novel, generalisable account of the links between coordinated joint action and social bonding. At the core of this account is the idea of "team click," a visceral and socially agentic phenomenon that we hypothesize derives from perceptions of successful coordination of movement in interdependent joint action and that positively predicts social bonding. We report the results of an initial test of this hypothesis conducted among professional rugby players in a national tournament in China. Results support the predicted relationship between perceptions of successful coordination in joint action and social bonding, mediated by perceptions of team click. Findings are discussed and situated within emerging dynamical, hierarchical and predictive models of intra- and inter-personal cognition from computational and cognitive neuroscience.

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Normocentric biases taint cognitive neuroscience and intervention of autism

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18002297 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laurent Mottron

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disability ◽

Cognitive Neuroscience ◽

Social Motivation ◽

Repetitive Behaviors ◽

Restricted Interests ◽

Autistic People

Abstract Stepping away from a normocentric understanding of autism goes beyond questioning the supposed lack of social motivation of autistic people. It evokes subversion of the prevalence of intellectual disability even in non-verbal autism. It also challenges the perceived purposelessness of some restricted interests and repetitive behaviors, and instead interprets them as legitimate exploratory and learning-associated manifestations.

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A hard choice for Tomasello

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002346 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Philip Pettit

Keyword(s):

Joint Action ◽

The Other ◽

Hard Choice ◽

Margaret Gilbert ◽

Michael Bratman ◽

Human Sense ◽

Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Michael Tomasello explains the human sense of obligation by the role it plays in negotiating practices of acting jointly and the commitments they underwrite. He draws in his work on two models of joint action, one from Michael Bratman, the other from Margaret Gilbert. But Bratman's makes the explanation too difficult to succeed, and Gilbert's makes it too easy.

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Cognitive gadgets and cognitive priors

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19000992 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Gian Domenico Iannetti ◽

Giorgio Vallortigara

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Neuroscience ◽

Selection Of

Abstract Some of the foundations of Heyes’ radical reasoning seem to be based on a fractional selection of available evidence. Using an ethological perspective, we argue against Heyes’ rapid dismissal of innate cognitive instincts. Heyes’ use of fMRI studies of literacy to claim that culture assembles pieces of mental technology seems an example of incorrect reverse inferences and overlap theories pervasive in cognitive neuroscience.

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Social epistemic actions

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002802 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Giovanni Pezzulo ◽

Laura Barca ◽

Domenico Maisto ◽

Francesco Donnarumma

Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Joint Action ◽

Niche Construction ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Learning Processes ◽

Epistemic Actions ◽

Target Article ◽

Online Social Interaction

Abstract We consider the ways humans engage in social epistemic actions, to guide each other's attention, prediction, and learning processes towards salient information, at the timescale of online social interaction and joint action. This parallels the active guidance of other's attention, prediction, and learning processes at the longer timescale of niche construction and cultural practices, as discussed in the target article.

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