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The Effect of Individual Coordination Ability on Cognitive-Load in Tacit Coordination Games

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Tacit coordination games are coordination games in which communication between the players is not allowed or not possible. Some players manage to reason about the selections made by the co-player while others fail to do so and might turn to rely on guessing. The aim of this study is to examine whether good coordinators are associated with a higher or lower cognitive load relative to weaker coordinators. We aimed to answer this question by using an electrophysiological marker of cognitive load, i.e., Theta/Beta Ratio. Results show that good coordinators are associated with a higher cognitive load with respect to weaker coordinators.

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This research was supported by grant number RA1900000666 provided by the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence center at Ariel University.

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    Dor Mizrahi, Ilan Laufer & Inon Zuckerman

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Mizrahi, D., Laufer, I., Zuckerman, I. (2020). The Effect of Individual Coordination Ability on Cognitive-Load in Tacit Coordination Games. In: Davis, F.D., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A.B., Fischer, T. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. NeuroIS 2020. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 43. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60073-0_28

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