Task Co-Representation

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Task Co-Representation

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task co-representation

Two or more individuals co-represent something if they each individually represent it and their representations are of the same kind (for example, they are both motor representations).

E.g. the double life of motor representation.

Add to figure: stimulus -> representation invovles stimulus discrimination; representation -> response involving planning. So we have a story about processes as well as about representations. Animal learning focuses on S–R plus stimulus discrimination but I take it that the representations are important there too.

A task representation links a representation of an event, such as the timer’s ringing, and a motor representation that specifies an action, such as taking the stew out of the oven, in such a way that if the event occurs, the subject becomes disposed to prepare and perform the action represented.

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evidence for task co-representation?

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This is just the data from the first condition (narrowest letter spacing)

redrawn from Eriksen & Eriksen (1974, p. figure 1)

Flanker task

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Dolk, Hommel, Prinz, & Liepelt (2014, p. figure 2c)

‘In the Nonhuman Co-Actor group, the procedure and treatment of the participants was as in the Human Co-Actor group, except that in the joint condition the human co-actor was replaced by a golden Japanese waving cat.’ (Dolk et al., 2014, p. 1226)