Interactive Cognition: An introduction

ABSTRACT

Humans do not passively respond to agents and stimuli; we engage with our environments in reciprocal and interactive fashion. This special issue of Visual Cognition presents a collection of twelve original articles which demonstrate that interactive reciprocity changes the expression of basic cognitions and motor actions as well as resulting overt cognitive and social behaviours. The results from these studies highlight the need for a greater understanding of the mechanisms by which interactive reciprocity influences cognitions. They also showcase the feasibility of addressing research questions involving reciprocity using both the existing classic methods as well as novel approaches. The future of the emerging science of Interactive Cognition is bright!

KEYWORDS:

• Interactive Cognition
• reciprocity
• basic cognitions
• complex behaviour
• social cognition

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Notes

1 Due to the publisher's error, three articles belonging to this special issue have been printed ahead in separate regular Visual Cognition volumes. The links to those articles are provided in the assembled special issue. These articles are: Breil and Böckler (2021), Dalmaso et al. (2021) and Hietanen and Peltola (2021).