Joint perception, joint attention, joint know-how

2024/05/19 by Axel Seemann · 1 voice · 1 citation
Psychology · #Action Observation and Synchronization #Child and Animal Learning Development #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

paper · doi:10.1080/09515089.2024.2353316

openalex publication_date 2024/05/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/26

Abstract

This paper develops a theory of joint attention as based on, and explicable in terms of, the exercise of a minimal kind of perceptual joint know-how. On the action-based view I shall be developing, joint forms of perception are object-involving processes constituted by perceivers’ skillfully co-ordinated motor movements in social space. Joint experience can then be understood as presenting the process to the involved perceivers and joint attention as perceivers’ focus on the object of this process. This theory reconciles at least some primitivist and reductionist intuitions about joint attention.

Citations

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Discussions

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