Collaborating in spatial tasks: partners adapt the perspective of their descriptions, coordination strategies, and memory representations

摘要: The partner's viewpoint influences spatial descriptions and, when strongly emphasized, memories as well. We examined whether partner-specific information affects the representations people spontaneously construct, description strategies they select, and their collaborating partner constructs based on these descriptions. Directors described to a misaligned Matcher arrays learned while either knowing Matcher's or not. Knowing led distinctive processing in judgments rotational bias array drawings. Directors' reflected strategic choices, suggesting that partners considered each other's computational demands. Such were effective by number of conversational turns took coordinate. Matchers represented both partners' viewpoints memory, with predicting facilitated perspective. Thus, behave contingently tasks optimize coordination: availability one's memory strategies, which turn influence memory.