AUTHOR=Vesper Cordula , Abramova Ekaterina , Bütepage Judith , Ciardo Francesca , Crossey Benjamin , Effenberg Alfred , Hristova Dayana , Karlinsky April , McEllin Luke , Nijssen Sari R. R. , Schmitz Laura , Wahn Basil TITLE=Joint Action: Mental Representations, Shared Information and General Mechanisms for Coordinating with Others JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=7 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02039 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02039 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

In joint action, multiple people coordinate their actions to perform a task together. This often requires precise temporal and spatial coordination. How do co-actors achieve this? How do they coordinate their actions toward a shared task goal? Here, we provide an overview of the mental representations involved in joint action, discuss how co-actors share sensorimotor information and what general mechanisms support coordination with others. By deliberately extending the review to aspects such as the cultural context in which a joint action takes place, we pay tribute to the complex and variable nature of this social phenomenon.