TY - JOUR AU - Vesper, Cordula AU - Abramova, Ekaterina AU - Bütepage, Judith AU - Ciardo, Francesca AU - Crossey, Benjamin AU - Effenberg, Alfred AU - Hristova, Dayana AU - Karlinsky, April AU - McEllin, Luke AU - Nijssen, Sari R. R. AU - Schmitz, Laura AU - Wahn, Basil PY - 2017 M3 - Mini Review TI - Joint Action: Mental Representations, Shared Information and General Mechanisms for Coordinating with Others JO - Frontiers in Psychology UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02039 VL - 7 SN - 1664-1078 N2 - In joint action, multiple people coordinate their actions to perform a task together. This often requires precise temporal and spatial coordination. How do co-actors achieve this? How do they coordinate their actions toward a shared task goal? Here, we provide an overview of the mental representations involved in joint action, discuss how co-actors share sensorimotor information and what general mechanisms support coordination with others. By deliberately extending the review to aspects such as the cultural context in which a joint action takes place, we pay tribute to the complex and variable nature of this social phenomenon. ER -