Günther Knoblich
Biographic Data
| ID | 2050145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Günther Knoblich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Günther |
| FAMILY NAME | Knoblich |
| SIGNATURE | KNOBLICH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4463-5318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Representing relations between individual contributions
Understanding how individuals plan, predict and adapt their actions is central to understanding the high degree of coordination involved in joint action. While previous research has examined the role of joint action plans in linking individual action representations in a two-person joint action plan, the specific conditions and representations associated with these plans are less well understood. In this study, we investigated when and how joint …
Does collaboration improve or impede finding remote associations
Across two experiments using the Compound Remote Associates Test (cRAT), we examined whether collaboration improves or impedes the ability to find remote associations. Participants worked either jointly in dyads or in parallel. In both experiments, joint dyads solved fewer problems and required more time to reach correct solutions, indicating a consistent performance cost of collaboration. In Experiment 1, joint dyads also generated fewer solutio…
The influence of task demands on joint action planning
Joint actions require co-actors to coordinate their individual contributions to achieve joint goals. One proposal is that such coordination is supported by joint action plans. However, it remains unclear whether joint action planning is generally prioritized, or whether it is flexibly engaged depending on task demands. Here, we investigated the factors that influence co-actors' propensity to use the individual- and joint-level planning. Pairs of …
Affective observation guides expectations about others’ emotional reactions to unfamiliar action outcomes
Observing others’ emotional expressions facilitates individuals’ expectations about the evaluations shared within a social group. This is useful for interpreting ambiguous cultural content, such as unfamiliar actions performed by others. This study investigated whether observed emotional reactions to instrumental actions are used to predict novel individuals’ evaluations of those same actions (i.e., generalization), and whether they are more like…
Observed reaching speed signals stimulus value and informs foraging
Optimal foraging requires agents to strike a balance between potential costs and rewards of interacting with stimuli in the environment. Research on human and animal foraging shows that the value an agent assigns to a stimulus is correlated with the speed of their reaching movement towards that stimulus (Shadmehr et al., 2019). Humans and other animals learn about the value of stimuli in their environment by observing others acting (Pyke, 1984; B…
Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal
Better Together
Humans engage in cooperative activities from early on and the breadth of human cooperation is unparalleled. Human preference for cooperation might reflect cognitive and motivational mechanisms that drive engagement in cooperative activities. Here we investigate early indices of humans’ cooperative abilities and test whether 14-month-old infants expect agents to prefer cooperative over individual goal achievement. Three groups of infants saw video…
Chimpanzees demonstrate a behavioural signature of human joint action
The strength of human society can largely be attributed to the tendency to work together to achieve outcomes that are not possible alone. Effective social coordination benefits from mentally representing a partner's actions. Specifically, humans optimize social coordination by forming internal action models adapted to joint rather than individual task demands. To what extent do humans share the cognitive mechanisms that support optimal human coor…
Me or we? Action-outcome learning in synchronous joint action
Goal-directed behaviour requires mental representations that encode instrumental relationships between actions and their outcomes. The present study investigated how people acquire representations of joint actions where co-actors perform synchronized action contributions to produce joint outcomes in the environment. Adapting an experimental procedure to assess individual action-outcome learning, we tested whether co-acting individuals link jointl…
The Influence of Robot Autonomy on Sense of Control and Trust Towards a Robot
Autonomous robots can make decisions that lead to outcomes that are better, equal to, or worse than those requested by a human. However, how the value of these outcomes shapes perceptions of robot autonomy remains underexplored. We conducted four online experiments examining how different forms of robot decision-making autonomy influence human–robot interaction. Participants played a game in which they selected a box for a robot avatar to collect…
Prescribing Agreement Improves Judgments and Decisions
We investigated whether prescribing agreement improves the quality of judgments and decisions. Participants were first asked to provide judgments or decisions individually. Then, they either revised their initial judgments and decisions based on a partners' response, or they provided a joint judgment agreed upon with their partner. In the latter condition, we allowed for a minimal communication protocol restricted to acceptance and rejection resp…
The role of reciprocity in dynamic interpersonal coordination of physiological rhythms
A central question in social cognition research is how people coordinate their bodily rhythms, and how important reciprocity of interaction is for interpersonal coordination. Previous research has primarily focused on interpersonal action coordination, which has been shown to be facilitated by mechanisms of prediction and mutual adaption. Recent research is beginning to show that people also coordinate their physiological rhythms (i.e., respirati…
Affective compatibility with the self modulates the self-prioritisation effect
The "self" shapes the way in which we process the world around us. It makes sense then, that self-related information is reliably prioritised over non self-related information in cognition. How might other factors such as self-compatibility shape the way self-relevant information is prioritised? The present work asks whether affective consistency between the self and arbitrarily self-associated stimuli influences the degree to which self-prioriti…
Crossmodal correspondences as common ground for joint action
When performing joint actions, people rely on common ground - shared information that provides the required basis for mutual understanding. Common ground can be based on people's interaction history or on knowledge and expectations people share, e.g., because they belong to the same culture or social class. Here, we suggest that people rely on yet another form of common ground, one that originates in their similarities in multisensory processing.…
Sticking together? Re-binding previous other-associated stimuli interferes with self-verification but not partner-verification
Do Implicit and Explicit Measures of the Sense of Agency Measure the Same Thing?
The sense of agency (SoA) refers to perceived causality of the self, i.e. the feeling of causing something to happen. The SoA has been probed using a variety of explicit and implicit measures. Explicit measures include rating scales and questionnaires. Implicit measures, which include sensory attenuation and temporal binding, use perceptual differences between self- and externally generated stimuli as measures of the SoA. In the present study, we…
The sense of agency during skill learning in individuals and dyads
Psychological Research on Joint Action
A minimal architecture for joint action
Jumping on the ecological bandwagon? Mind the gap
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Pianists duet better when they play with themselves
Joint action
Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors
Certain models of spoken-language processing, like those for many other perceptual and cognitive processes, posit continuous uptake of sensory input and dynamic competition between simultaneously active representations. Here, we provide compelling evidence for this continuity assumption by using a continuous response, hand movements, to track the temporal dynamics of lexical activations during real-time spoken-word recognition in a visual context…
The Case for Motor Involvement in Perceiving Conspecifics
Perceiving other people's behaviors activates imitative motor plans in the perceiver, but there is disagreement as to the function of this activation. In contrast to other recent proposals (e.g., that it subserves overt imitation, identification and understanding of actions, or working memory), here it is argued that imitative motor activation feeds back into the perceptual processing of conspecifics' behaviors, generating top-down expectations a…
Representing others' actions
The Case for Motor Involvement in Perceiving Conspecifics
Perceiving other people's behaviors activates imitative motor plans in the perceiver, but there is disagreement as to the function of this activation. In contrast to other recent proposals (e.g., that it subserves overt imitation, identification and understanding of actions, or working memory), here it is argued that imitative motor activation feeds back into the perceptual processing of conspecifics' behaviors, generating top-down expectations a…
Representing others' actions
Observing one’s hand become anarchic
Grounding the self in action
Action identity
Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors
Certain models of spoken-language processing, like those for many other perceptual and cognitive processes, posit continuous uptake of sensory input and dynamic competition between simultaneously active representations. Here, we provide compelling evidence for this continuity assumption by using a continuous response, hand movements, to track the temporal dynamics of lexical activations during real-time spoken-word recognition in a visual context…
The Case for Motor Involvement in Perceiving Conspecifics
Perceiving other people's behaviors activates imitative motor plans in the perceiver, but there is disagreement as to the function of this activation. In contrast to other recent proposals (e.g., that it subserves overt imitation, identification and understanding of actions, or working memory), here it is argued that imitative motor activation feeds back into the perceptual processing of conspecifics' behaviors, generating top-down expectations a…
Joint action
Pianists duet better when they play with themselves
Jumping on the ecological bandwagon? Mind the gap
n Contains fulltext :\n 76783.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
A minimal architecture for joint action
Psychological Research on Joint Action
The sense of agency during skill learning in individuals and dyads
Do Implicit and Explicit Measures of the Sense of Agency Measure the Same Thing?
The sense of agency (SoA) refers to perceived causality of the self, i.e. the feeling of causing something to happen. The SoA has been probed using a variety of explicit and implicit measures. Explicit measures include rating scales and questionnaires. Implicit measures, which include sensory attenuation and temporal binding, use perceptual differences between self- and externally generated stimuli as measures of the SoA. In the present study, we…
Sticking together? Re-binding previous other-associated stimuli interferes with self-verification but not partner-verification
Affective compatibility with the self modulates the self-prioritisation effect
The "self" shapes the way in which we process the world around us. It makes sense then, that self-related information is reliably prioritised over non self-related information in cognition. How might other factors such as self-compatibility shape the way self-relevant information is prioritised? The present work asks whether affective consistency between the self and arbitrarily self-associated stimuli influences the degree to which self-prioriti…
Crossmodal correspondences as common ground for joint action
When performing joint actions, people rely on common ground - shared information that provides the required basis for mutual understanding. Common ground can be based on people's interaction history or on knowledge and expectations people share, e.g., because they belong to the same culture or social class. Here, we suggest that people rely on yet another form of common ground, one that originates in their similarities in multisensory processing.…
The role of reciprocity in dynamic interpersonal coordination of physiological rhythms
A central question in social cognition research is how people coordinate their bodily rhythms, and how important reciprocity of interaction is for interpersonal coordination. Previous research has primarily focused on interpersonal action coordination, which has been shown to be facilitated by mechanisms of prediction and mutual adaption. Recent research is beginning to show that people also coordinate their physiological rhythms (i.e., respirati…
Better Together
Humans engage in cooperative activities from early on and the breadth of human cooperation is unparalleled. Human preference for cooperation might reflect cognitive and motivational mechanisms that drive engagement in cooperative activities. Here we investigate early indices of humans’ cooperative abilities and test whether 14-month-old infants expect agents to prefer cooperative over individual goal achievement. Three groups of infants saw video…
Chimpanzees demonstrate a behavioural signature of human joint action
The strength of human society can largely be attributed to the tendency to work together to achieve outcomes that are not possible alone. Effective social coordination benefits from mentally representing a partner's actions. Specifically, humans optimize social coordination by forming internal action models adapted to joint rather than individual task demands. To what extent do humans share the cognitive mechanisms that support optimal human coor…
Me or we? Action-outcome learning in synchronous joint action
Goal-directed behaviour requires mental representations that encode instrumental relationships between actions and their outcomes. The present study investigated how people acquire representations of joint actions where co-actors perform synchronized action contributions to produce joint outcomes in the environment. Adapting an experimental procedure to assess individual action-outcome learning, we tested whether co-acting individuals link jointl…
The Influence of Robot Autonomy on Sense of Control and Trust Towards a Robot
Autonomous robots can make decisions that lead to outcomes that are better, equal to, or worse than those requested by a human. However, how the value of these outcomes shapes perceptions of robot autonomy remains underexplored. We conducted four online experiments examining how different forms of robot decision-making autonomy influence human–robot interaction. Participants played a game in which they selected a box for a robot avatar to collect…
Prescribing Agreement Improves Judgments and Decisions
We investigated whether prescribing agreement improves the quality of judgments and decisions. Participants were first asked to provide judgments or decisions individually. Then, they either revised their initial judgments and decisions based on a partners' response, or they provided a joint judgment agreed upon with their partner. In the latter condition, we allowed for a minimal communication protocol restricted to acceptance and rejection resp…
Affective observation guides expectations about others’ emotional reactions to unfamiliar action outcomes
Observing others’ emotional expressions facilitates individuals’ expectations about the evaluations shared within a social group. This is useful for interpreting ambiguous cultural content, such as unfamiliar actions performed by others. This study investigated whether observed emotional reactions to instrumental actions are used to predict novel individuals’ evaluations of those same actions (i.e., generalization), and whether they are more like…
Observed reaching speed signals stimulus value and informs foraging
Optimal foraging requires agents to strike a balance between potential costs and rewards of interacting with stimuli in the environment. Research on human and animal foraging shows that the value an agent assigns to a stimulus is correlated with the speed of their reaching movement towards that stimulus (Shadmehr et al., 2019). Humans and other animals learn about the value of stimuli in their environment by observing others acting (Pyke, 1984; B…
Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal
Psychology (24 works) · Cognitive psychology (19 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (18 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Neuroscience (11 works) · Perception (10 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (9 works) · Cognition (8 works) · Cognitive science (8 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (8 works)