Joint attention in joint action

2012/05/28 by Anika Fiebich, Shaun Gallagher · 2 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Action Observation and Synchronization #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

paper · doi:10.1080/09515089.2012.690176

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the role of intention and joint attention in joint actions. Depending on the shared intentions the agents have, we distinguish between joint path-goal actions and joint final-goal actions. We propose an instrumental account of basic joint action analogous to a concept of basic action and argue that intentional joint attention is a basic joint action. Furthermore, we discuss the functional role of intentional joint attention for successful cooperation in complex joint actions.

Citations

• Shared intention and personal intentions
• Shared Cooperative Activity
• Shared Intention
• American Philosophical Quarterly

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