About Aarhus University
Cordula Vesper
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Culture - Semotics
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Mobile: +4587162792
My research interests focus on intentional joint action coordination: I investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying seemingly easy everyday behaviors such as moving a couch with someone else, shaking hands or clapping together after a concert. This interest extends into domains like musical ensemble coordination, team sports, action understanding, human-robot interaction and sense of agency. More recently, my focus has become studying links between action, coordination, and communication. I study these topics both in the lab and outside, e.g. in museums as part of the project "Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting" (EER) with PI Andreas Roepstorff and artist Olafur Eliasson.
I have a background in Cognitive Science and Neuro-cognitive Psychology, which I studied at the University of Osnabrueck and Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich in my home country Germany. I received a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) for my thesis "Acting Together: Mechanisms of Intentional Coordination" supervised by Natalie Sebanz and Günther Knoblich. Afterwards I worked as a postdoc at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where I was involved in, among other things, the ERC Synergy project "Constructing Social Minds: Coordination, Communication, and Cultural Transmission" (SOMICS). Until 2019, I was a young fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Bielefeld, Germany.
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When is ostensive communication used for joint action?
Vesper, C., Morisseau, T., Knoblich, G. & Sperber, D., Nov 2021, In: Cognitive Semiotics. 14, 2, p. 101-129 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Crossmodal correspondences as common ground for joint action
Schmitz, L., Knoblich, G., Deroy, O. & Vesper, C., Jan 2021, In: Acta Psychologica. 212, p. 103222Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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How does a partner’s motor variability affect joint action?
Sabu, S., Curioni, A., Vesper, C., Sebanz, N. & Knoblich, G., Oct 2020, In: PLOS ONE. 15, 10 , e0241417.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Informing, Coordinating, and Performing: A Perspective on Functions of Sensorimotor Communication
Vesper, C. & Sevdalis, V., May 2020, In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 14, 168.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Modulating action duration to establish non-conventional communication
Vesper, C., Schmitz, L. & Knoblich, G., Dec 2017, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 146, 12, p. 1722-1737 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Joint action: Mental representations, shared information and general mechanisms for coordinating with others
Vesper, C., Abramova, E., Bütepage, J., Ciardo, F., Crossey, B., Effenberg, A., Hristova, D., Karlinsky, A., McEllin, L., Nijssen, S., Schmitz, L. & Wahn, B., 4 Jan 2017, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 7, p. 2039Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Sunlight grafitti workshop
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Sharing Perspectives at Olafur Eliasson's In Real Life
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Natural Language Processing Workshop
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