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In conversation, it is indispensable to understand what we are currently doing. However, such cognitive understandings which are left their own do not enable us to practice interactive communication. The reason comes from the fact that the sequence of actions continues based on a 'perception-action' mechanism. And by using it, we can search and pick up the information available to adjust the following actions. This paper considers a way to treat cognitive understanding as the essence of interactive communication. The author assumes that there is a process through which an orientation, called "omomuki", is derived from understandings of preceding events and bridges a gap between the cognition and the perception-action mechanism. To entrain the sequence of actions and to participate in the interaction, participants need the orientation to lead themselves to their next action. Using the findings of some video episodes, this paper aims to verify the relation between the interactive communication and "omomuki". Furthermore, it aims to correlate the cognition with practices which are in conversation.