Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies
The aim of this review is to highlight the idea of grounding social cognition in sensorimotor interactions shared across agents. We discuss an action-oriented account that emerges from a broader interpretation of the concept of sensorimotor contingencies. We suggest that dynamic informational and se...
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| author | Annika Lübbert Florian Göschl Hanna Krause Till R. Schneider Alexander Maye Andreas K. Engel |
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| description | The aim of this review is to highlight the idea of grounding social cognition in sensorimotor interactions shared across agents. We discuss an action-oriented account that emerges from a broader interpretation of the concept of sensorimotor contingencies. We suggest that dynamic informational and sensorimotor coupling across agents can mediate the deployment of action-effect contingencies in social contexts. We propose this concept of socializing sensorimotor contingencies (socSMCs) as a shared framework of analysis for processes within and across brains and bodies, and their physical and social environments. In doing so, we integrate insights from different fields, including neuroscience, psychology, and research on human–robot interaction. We review studies on dynamic embodied interaction and highlight empirical findings that suggest an important role of sensorimotor and informational entrainment in social contexts. Furthermore, we discuss links to closely related concepts, such as enactivism, models of coordination dynamics and others, and clarify differences to approaches that focus on mentalizing and high-level cognitive representations. Moreover, we consider conceptual implications of rethinking cognition as social sensorimotor coupling. The insight that social cognitive phenomena like joint attention, mutual trust or empathy rely heavily on the informational and sensorimotor coupling between agents may provide novel remedies for people with disturbed social cognition and for situations of disturbed social interaction. Furthermore, our proposal has potential applications in the field of human–robot interaction where socSMCs principles might lead to more natural and intuitive interfaces for human users. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b0dbd90f0f9407eacacbe27813f585e2022-12-21T21:58:35ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612021-09-011510.3389/fnhum.2021.624610624610Socializing Sensorimotor ContingenciesAnnika Lübbert0Florian Göschl1Hanna Krause2Till R. Schneider3Alexander Maye4Andreas K. Engel5Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, GermanyDepartment of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, GermanyDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, GermanyDepartment of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, GermanyDepartment of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, GermanyDepartment of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, GermanyThe aim of this review is to highlight the idea of grounding social cognition in sensorimotor interactions shared across agents. We discuss an action-oriented account that emerges from a broader interpretation of the concept of sensorimotor contingencies. We suggest that dynamic informational and sensorimotor coupling across agents can mediate the deployment of action-effect contingencies in social contexts. We propose this concept of socializing sensorimotor contingencies (socSMCs) as a shared framework of analysis for processes within and across brains and bodies, and their physical and social environments. In doing so, we integrate insights from different fields, including neuroscience, psychology, and research on human–robot interaction. We review studies on dynamic embodied interaction and highlight empirical findings that suggest an important role of sensorimotor and informational entrainment in social contexts. Furthermore, we discuss links to closely related concepts, such as enactivism, models of coordination dynamics and others, and clarify differences to approaches that focus on mentalizing and high-level cognitive representations. Moreover, we consider conceptual implications of rethinking cognition as social sensorimotor coupling. The insight that social cognitive phenomena like joint attention, mutual trust or empathy rely heavily on the informational and sensorimotor coupling between agents may provide novel remedies for people with disturbed social cognition and for situations of disturbed social interaction. Furthermore, our proposal has potential applications in the field of human–robot interaction where socSMCs principles might lead to more natural and intuitive interfaces for human users.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.624610/fullsensorimotor contingenciescouplingpredictionhuman–robot interactioncoordination dynamicsjoint action |
| spellingShingle | Annika Lübbert Florian Göschl Hanna Krause Till R. Schneider Alexander Maye Andreas K. Engel Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies Frontiers in Human Neuroscience sensorimotor contingencies coupling prediction human–robot interaction coordination dynamics joint action |
| title | Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies |
| title_full | Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies |
| title_fullStr | Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies |
| title_short | Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies |
| title_sort | socializing sensorimotor contingencies |
| topic | sensorimotor contingencies coupling prediction human–robot interaction coordination dynamics joint action |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.624610/full |
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