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SUBMITTER: Lelonkiewicz JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5486872 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Psychonomic bulletin & review 20170601 3
The human ability to perform joint actions is often attributed to high-level cognitive processes. For example, the finding that action leaders act faster when imitated by their partners has been interpreted as evidence for anticipation of the other's actions (Pfister, Dignath, Hommel, & Kunde, 2013). In two experiments, we showed that a low-level mechanism can account for this finding. Action leaders were faster when imitated than when counterimitated, but only if they could observe their partne ...[more]