Somby

The Boundaries of Mind Workshop in Vienna - 13th Nov 2019

Rushing in rhythmic joint action

When people engage in rhythmic joint actions, from simple clapping games to elaborate joint music making, they tend to increase their tempo unconsciously.

Collective benefit in joint judgments

People can combine their observations to make better decisions without verbally communicating their confidence to each other.

JAM 8 in July 2019

We invite you to attend the 8th Joint Action Meeting which brings together cognitive scientists and researchers from related disciplines studying individuals’ ability to act together.

Role distribution in joint action

In a complex task interacting with each other can lead to successful joint performance both with and without role distribution.

Sense of commitment

High levels of borderline personality disorder traits may give rise to a difficulty in adapting one's social expectations and behavior in light of interpersonal commitments

Co-actors represent the order of each other’s actions

People represent not only the elements of another’s task, but also their temporal structure.

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Welcome to the Social Mind and Body Group's website

The Social Mind and Body group (SOMBY), led by Natalie Sebanz and Günther Knoblich, investigates the perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes that underlie social cognition and social interaction. Our take is that individual minds are geared towards understanding others and interacting with others. This is why we study perception, cognition, and action in social context. As a tribute to good old solitary thinking we also study the processes underlying insight in problem solving.

Joint planning, coordination, and commitment

Communication and teaching in joint action

Joint attention, perspective taking, and mindreading

Self and other in perception and action

Insight and innovation

Funding

2014-2019 ERC Consolidator grant Joint action expertise: behavioral, cognitive, and neural mechanisms for joint action learning (JAXPERTISE) led by Natalie Sebanz

2015-2020 ERC Synergy grant Constructing social minds: Coordination, communication, and cultural transmission (SOMICS) led by Günther Knoblich

2016-2021 ERC Starting Grant The Sense of Commitment: An Integrative Framework for Modeling the Sense of Commitment (SENSE OF COMMITMENT) led by John Michael