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PROJECT PROPOSAL: THE DYADIC MOTOR PLAN

Demos of the experimental videos

The links below show demos of the movements that participants will observe in the partner and will be required to perform during the Sound Guided Task (STG) and the Joint Action Task (JAT).

The combination of participants’ and virtual partner’s movements will lead participants to perform congruent or incongruent actions with respect to the partner’s ones.

In the videos, single trials are shown: they are named on the basis of the movement the participant is required to perform (i.e. a grasping movement to play a C, or an index finger press to play a G) and according on whether this movement is congruent or incongruent with the partner's one. Importantly, the note generated by the partner's movement is the GO signal for the participant's motor response.

In the JAT a sequence of 5 trials will generate a melody, which participants are required to play together with the partner. This joint action goal is not present in the SGT. An example of "melody" (i.e. a miniblock composed of 5 consecutive trials in the JAT condition) is also provided.