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List of Publications

In press

Dockendorff, M., Schmitz, L., Vesper, C., & Knoblich, G. (in press). Communicative modulations of early action components support the prediction of distal goals. PLOS ONE.

2024

Zamm, A., Loehr, J. D., Vesper, C., Konvalinka, I., Kappel, S. L., Heggli, O. A., Vuust, P., & Keller, P. E. (2024). A practical guide to EEG hyperscanning in joint action research: From motivation to implementation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19(1), nsae026. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsae026 

2023

Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A., Rasenberg, M., Albert, S., Ameka, F. K., Birhane, A., Bolis, D., Cassell, J., Clift, R., Cuffari, E., De Jaegher, H., Novaes, C. D., Enfield, N. J., Fusaroli, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Hutchins, E., Konvalinka, I., Milton, D., Rączaszek‐Leonardi, J., Reddy, V., Rossano, F., Schlangen, D., Seibt, J., Stokoe, E., Suchman, L., Vesper, C., Wheatley, Th., Wiltschko, M. (2023). Beyond Single‐Mindedness: A Figure‐Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences. Cognitive Science, 47(1), e13230. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13230 

Dockendorff, M., Schmitz, L., Vesper, C., & Knoblich, G. (2023). Understanding others’ distal goals from proximal communicative actions. PLOS ONE, 18(1), e0280265. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280265 

2022

Løppenthin, A., Bjerre Jensen, D., Vesper, C., Roepstorff, A., & Dumit, J. (2022). Sharing perspectives: Inviting playful curiosity into museum spaces through a performative score. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.825625

Pugliese, M., & Vesper, C. (2022). Digital joint action: Avatar-mediated social interaction in digital spaces. Acta Psychologica, 230, 103758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103758 

2021

Dockendorff, M., Schmitz, L., Knoblich, G., & Vesper, C. (2021). Understanding distal goals from proximal communicative actions. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Schmitz, L., Knoblich, G., Deroy, O., & Vesper, C. (2021). Crossmodal correspondences as common ground for joint action. Acta Psychologica, 212, 103222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103222 

Vesper, C. (2021). Interpersonale Koordination. In A. Guellich & M. Krueger (Eds.), Handbuch Sport und Sportwissenschaft. Springer Spektrum.

Vesper, C., Morisseau, T., Knoblich, G., & Sperber, D. (2021).  When is ostensive communication used for joint action? Cognitive Semiotics, 14(2), 101-129. https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem-2021-2040

2020

Miton, H., Wolf, T., Vesper, C., Knoblich, G., & Sperber, D. (2020). Motor constraints influence cultural evolution of rhythm. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1937), 20202001. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2001

Sabu, S., Curioni, A., Vesper, C., Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2020). How does a partner’s motor variability affect joint action? PLOS ONE, 15(10), e0241417. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241417 

Vesper, C., & Sevdalis, V. (2020). Informing, Coordinating, and Performing: A Perspective on Functions of Sensorimotor Communication. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00168  

2019

Curioni, A., Vesper, C., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2019). Reciprocal information flow and role distribution support joint action coordination. Cognition, 187, 21–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.02.006 

Rocca, R., Wallentin, M., Vesper, C., & Tylén, K. (2019). This is for you: Social modulations of proximal vs. distal space in collaborative interaction. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51134-8

Wolf, T., Vesper, C., Sebanz, N., Keller, P., & Knoblich, G. (2019). Combining Phase Advancement and Period Correction Explains Rushing during Joint Rhythmic Activities. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 9350. 

2018

Schmitz, L., Vesper, C., Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2018). When height carries weight: Communicating hidden object properties for joint action. Cognitive Science, 42, 2021–2059 . 10.1111/cogs.12638 

Rocca, R., Wallentin, M., Vesper, C., & Tylén, K. (2018). This and that back in context: Grounding demonstrative reference in manual and social affordances. In Proceedings From The 40th Annual Meeting Of The Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1522–1527). Madison, WI: Cognitive Science Society.

Schmitz, L., Vesper, C., Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2018). Co-actors represent the order of each other’s actions. Cognition, 181, 65–79. 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.008 

2017

Dötsch, D., Vesper, C., & Schubö, A. (2017). How you move is what I see: Planning an action biases a partner’s visual search. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 77.

Schmitz, L., Vesper, C., Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2017). Co-representation of others' task constraints in joint action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(8), 1480-1493. 

Schwenke, D., Dshemuchadse, M., Vesper, C., Bleichner, M. G. & Scherbaum, S. (2017). Let’s decide together: Differences between individual and joint delay discounting. PlosONE, 12, 1-15.

Vesper, C., Abramova, E., Bütepage, J., Ciardo, F., Crossey, B., Effenberg, A., Hristova, D., Karlinsky, A., McEllin, L., Nijssen, S., Schmitz, L., & Wahn, B. (2017). Joint action: Mental representations, shared information and general mechanisms for coordinating with others. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 2039. 

Vesper, C., Schmitz, L., & Knoblich, G. (2017). Modulating action duration to establish non-conventional communication. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(12), 1722-1737.

2016

Loehr, J. & Vesper, C. (2016). The sound of you and me: Novices represent shared goals in joint action. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(3), 535-547.

Lowe, R., Almer, A., Lindblad, G., Gander, P., Michael, J., & Vesper, C. (2016). Minimalist social-affective value for use in joint action: A neural-computational hypothesis. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 10, 88.

Vesper, C., Morisseau, T., Knoblich, G., & Sperber, D. (2016). Matching matchboxes: Co-actors create non-conventional communication systems for joint action. Proceedings of the 13th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society (pp. 47-50).

Vesper, C., Schmitz, L., Safra, L., Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2016). The role of shared visual information for joint action coordination. Cognition, 153, 118-123.

Vesper, C., Schmitz, L., & Knoblich, G. (2016). Using violations of Fitts' law to communicate during joint action. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2219-2224).

Vesper, C., & Sebanz, N. (2016). Acting together: Representations and coordination processes. In S. Obhi & E. Cross (eds.) Shared Representations: Sensorimotor Foundations of Social Life (pp. 216-235). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2011 - 2015

Vesper, C. (2014). How to support action prediction: Evidence from human coordination tasks. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (pp. 655-659).

Vesper, C., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2014). Our actions in my mind: Motor imagery of joint action. Neuropsychologia, 55, 115-121. 

Vesper, C. & Richardson, M. (2014). Strategic communication and behavioral coupling in asymmetric joint action. Experimental Brain Research, 232(9), 2945-2956.

Loehr, J., Kourtis, D., Vesper, C., Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2013). Monitoring individual and joint action outcomes in duet music performance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(7), 1049-1061.

Vesper, C., Schmitz, L., Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2013). Joint action coordination through strategic reduction in variability. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1522 - 1527). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 

Vesper, C., van der Wel, R. P. R. D., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2013). Are you ready to jump? Predictive mechanisms in interpersonal coordination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(1), 48-61. 

Vesper, C., van der Wel, R., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2011). Making oneself predictable: Reduced temporal variability facilitates joint action coordination. Experimental Brain Research, 211(3-4), 517-530.

2007 - 2010

Vesper, C., Butterfill, S., Knoblich, G., & Sebanz, N. (2010). A minimal architecture for joint action. Neural Networks, 23, 998-1003. 

Vesper, C., Soutschek, A., & Schubö, A. (2009). Motion coordination affects movement parameters in a joint pick-and-place task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(12), 2418-2432.

Vesper, C., Stork, S., & Schubö, A. (2008). Movement times in inter- and intrapersonal human coordination. In A. Stoica et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behaviors for Robotic Systems (pp. 17–22). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.

Vesper, C., Stork, S., Wiesbeck, M. & Schubö, A. (2008). Intra- and interpersonal coordination of goal-oriented movements in a working scenario. In R. Wang, E. Shen, & F. Gu (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics ICCN 2007. Springer Netherlands, 411-415.

Van Elk, M., van Schie, H., Hunnius, S., Vesper, C., & Bekkering, H. (2008). You'll never crawl alone: Neurophysiological evidence for experience-dependent motor resonance in infancy. NeuroImage, 43, 808-814. 

Schubö, A., Vesper, C., Wiesbeck, M., & Stork, S. (2007). Movement coordination in applied human-human and human-robot interaction. In A. Holzinger (Ed.), HCI and Usability for Medicine and Health Care 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4799, 143-154. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.