Dr. Michael Richardson, 4:00pm March 1st
Center for Cognition, Action and Perception, University of Cincinnati
Tuesday, March 1st
Swift 107
4:00pm
Reception to Follow
Embedded Multiagent Dynamics: Musical Improvisation, Sheep Herding and Self-Organized Task Roles
Social interaction and multiagent behavior is a fundamental aspect of everyday human activity. The success of such behavior, whether measured in terms of social connection, evaluative performance, goal achievement, or the ability of individuals to simply adapt to the behavioral intentions and actions of other individuals, is not only dependent on numerous neurocognitive processes, but also on the time-evolving (dynamical) processes of perceptual-motor coordination.
Accordingly, understanding and modeling these dynamics, including how they activate, (self-)maintain, dissolve, and transform over time is an important endeavor. Here, I will review recent research aimed at uncovering the behavioral dynamics that emerge during a range of multiagent perceptual-motor coordination tasks (musical improvisation, multiagent sheep herding, and other physical joint-action tasks) and discuss how these dynamics are lawfully shaped and constrained by context specific physical and informational task symmetries.
Background Reading:
- Richardson, et al. (in press). Modeling Embedded Interpersonal and Multiagent Coordination.
- Richardson, M. J., & Kallen, R. W. (2016). Symmetry-Breaking and the Contextual Emergence of Human Multiagent Coordination and Social Activity. In Contextuality from Quantum Physics to Psychology (pp. 229-286).
- Walton, A. E., Richardson, M. J., Langland-Hassan, P., & Chemero, A. (2015). Improvisation and the self-organization of multiple musical bodies. Frontiers in Psychology, 6.