TY - JOUR
T1 - Joint action coordination in expert-novice pairs
T2 - Can experts predict novices’ suboptimal timing?
AU - Wolf, Thomas
AU - Sebanz, Natalie
AU - Knoblich, Günther
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Authors
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - Previous research has established that skilled joint action partners use predictive models to achieve temporal coordination, for instance, when playing a music duet. But how do joint action partners with different skill levels achieve coordination? Can experts predict the suboptimal timing of novices? What kind of information allows them to predict novices’ timing? To address these questions, we asked skilled pianists to perform duets with piano novices. We varied whether, prior to performing duets, experts were familiar with novices’ performances of their individual parts of the duets and whether experts had access to the musical scores including the novices’ part of the duet. Familiarity with the score led to better coordination when the score implied a difficult passage. Familiarity with novices’ performances led to better joint action coordination for the remaining parts of the duet. Together, the results indicate that experts are surprisingly flexible in predicting novices’ suboptimal timing.
AB - Previous research has established that skilled joint action partners use predictive models to achieve temporal coordination, for instance, when playing a music duet. But how do joint action partners with different skill levels achieve coordination? Can experts predict the suboptimal timing of novices? What kind of information allows them to predict novices’ timing? To address these questions, we asked skilled pianists to perform duets with piano novices. We varied whether, prior to performing duets, experts were familiar with novices’ performances of their individual parts of the duets and whether experts had access to the musical scores including the novices’ part of the duet. Familiarity with the score led to better coordination when the score implied a difficult passage. Familiarity with novices’ performances led to better joint action coordination for the remaining parts of the duet. Together, the results indicate that experts are surprisingly flexible in predicting novices’ suboptimal timing.
KW - Expertise
KW - Joint action
KW - Music ensembles
KW - Prediction
KW - Sensorimotor synchronization
KW - Temporal coordination
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.05.012
DO - 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.05.012
M3 - Article
C2 - 29852424
AN - SCOPUS:85054355363
SN - 0010-0277
VL - 178
SP - 103
EP - 108
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
ER -