Using second-person neuroscience to elucidate the mechanisms of social interaction

Nature reviews. Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 20(8), P. 495 - 505

Published: May 28, 2019

Language: Английский

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Social touch and human development

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 35, P. 5 - 11

Published: April 24, 2018

Social touch is a powerful force in human development, shaping social reward, attachment, cognitive, communication, and emotional regulation from infancy throughout life. In this review, we consider the question of how defined both bottom-up top-down perspectives. former category, there clear role for C-touch (CT) system, which constitutes unique submodality that mediates affective contrasts with discriminative touch. Top-down factors such as culture, personal relationships, setting, gender, other contextual influences are also important defining interpreting The critical lifespan considered, special attention to young childhood, time during its neural, behavioral, physiological contingencies contribute reinforcement-based learning impact variety developmental trajectories. Finally, an example disordered development –autism spectrum disorder—is reviewed.

Language: Английский

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Real-Life Neuroscience: An Ecological Approach to Brain and Behavior Research

Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 14(5), P. 841 - 859

Published: Aug. 13, 2019

Owing to advances in neuroimaging technology, the past couple of decades have witnessed a surge research on brain mechanisms that underlie human cognition. Despite immense development cognitive neuroscience, vast majority experiments examine isolated agents carrying out artificial tasks sensory and socially deprived environments. Thus, understanding various domains including social cognition episodic memory, is sorely lacking. Here we focus memory as representatives functions propose mainstream, lab-based experimental designs these fields suffer from two fundamental limitations, pertaining person-dependent situation-dependent factors. The factor addresses issue limiting active role participants paradigms may interfere with their sense agency embodiment. decontextualized environment most available paradigms. Building recent findings showing real-life opposed controlled involve different mechanisms, argue adopting approach radically change our behavior. Therefore, advocate favor paradigm shift toward nonreductionist approach, exploiting portable technology semicontrolled environments, explore behavior real life.

Language: Английский

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Herding Brains: A Core Neural Mechanism for Social Alignment

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 23(3), P. 174 - 186

Published: Jan. 21, 2019

Language: Английский

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Interactional synchrony: signals, mechanisms and benefits

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 16(1-2), P. 5 - 18

Published: March 2, 2020

Many group-living animals, humans included, occasionally synchronize their behavior with that of conspecifics. Social psychology and neuroscience have attempted to explain this phenomenon. Here we sought integrate results around three themes: the stimuli, mechanisms benefits interactional synchrony. As regards asked what characteristics, apart from temporal regularity, prompt synchronization found stimulus modality complexity are important. The high resolution auditory system relevance socio-emotional information endow auditory, multimodal, emotional somewhat variable adaptive sequences particular synchronizing power. Looking at revealed traditional perspectives emphasizing beat-based representations others' signals conflict more recent work investigating perception regularity. Timing processes supported by striato-cortical loops represent any kind repetitive interval sequence fairly automatically. Additionally, posterior superior cortex help such value motivating extent synchronizing. Synchronizing arise an increased predictability incoming include many positive outcomes ranging basic processing individual level bonding dyads larger groups.

Language: Английский

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Cooperative Behavior Evokes Interbrain Synchrony in the Prefrontal and Temporoparietal Cortex: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of fNIRS Hyperscanning Studies

eNeuro, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 9(2), P. ENEURO.0268 - 21.2022

Published: March 1, 2022

Single-brain neuroimaging studies have shown that human cooperation is associated with neural activity in frontal and temporoparietal regions. However, it remains unclear whether single-brain are informative about real life, where people interact dynamically. Such dynamic interactions become the focus of interbrain studies. An advantageous technique this regard functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) because less susceptible to movement artifacts than more conventional techniques like electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We conducted a systematic review first quantitative meta-analysis fNIRS hyperscanning cooperation, based on thirteen 890 participants. Overall, revealed evidence statistically significant synchrony while were cooperating, large overall effect sizes both areas. All observed prefrontal cortex (PFC), suggesting region particularly relevant for cooperative behavior. The consistency these findings unlikely be task-related activations, given used diverse tasks. Together, present support importance synchronization regions interpersonal cooperation. Moreover, article highlights usefulness meta-analyses as tool discerning patterns dynamics.

Language: Английский

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Interactive Brain Activity: Review and Progress on EEG-Based Hyperscanning in Social Interactions

Frontiers in Psychology, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 9

Published: Oct. 8, 2018

When individuals interact with others, perceived information is transmitted among their brains. The EEG-based hyperscanning technique, which provides an approach to explore dynamic brain activities between two or more interactive and underlying neural mechanisms, has been applied study different aspects of social interactions since 2010. Recently there increase in research on interactions. This paper summarizes the application during according experimental designs contents, discusses possibility applying inter-brain synchrony communication systems analyzes contributions limitations these investigations. Furthermore, this sheds light some new challenges future studies emerging field for pursuing broader

Language: Английский

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Instructor-learner brain coupling discriminates between instructional approaches and predicts learning

NeuroImage, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 211, P. 116657 - 116657

Published: Feb. 15, 2020

The neural mechanisms that support naturalistic learning via effective pedagogical approaches remain elusive. Here we used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to measure brain activity from instructor-learner dyads simultaneously during dynamic conceptual learning. Results revealed brain-to-brain coupling was correlated with outcomes, and, crucially, appeared be driven by specific scaffolding behaviors on the part of instructors (e.g., asking guiding questions or providing hints). Brain-to-brain enhancement absent when an explanation approach definitions clarifications). Finally, found machine-learning techniques were more successful decoding instructional (scaffolding vs. explanation) data than using a single-brain method. These findings suggest as pedagogically relevant tracks process interaction throughout constructive engagement, but not information clarification.

Language: Английский

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A functional neuro-anatomical model of human attachment (NAMA): Insights from first- and second-person social neuroscience

Cortex, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 126, P. 281 - 321

Published: Jan. 30, 2020

Attachment theory, developed by Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby about seventy years ago, has become one of the most influential comprehensive contemporary psychology theories. It predicts that early social interactions with significant others shape emergence distinct self- other-representations, latter affecting how we initiate maintain relationships across lifespan. A person's attachment history will therefore associate inter-individual differences in emotional cognitive mechanisms sustaining representations, modeling, understanding on biological brain level. This review aims at summarizing currently available neuroscience data healthy participants anatomy activity lifespan, to integrate these into an extended refined functional neuro-anatomical model human (NAMA). We first propose a new prototypical initial pathway its derivatives as function security, avoidance, anxiety. Based pathways, suggest neural system composed two mentalization modules (aversion approach) (emotion regulation mental state representation) provide evidence their functionality depending attachment. subsequently expand this first-person account also considering second-person perspective comprising concepts bio-behavioral synchrony particularly inter-brain coherence. hope such NAMA can inform theory ultimately help devising prevention intervention strategies for individuals families risk attachment-related psychopathology.

Language: Английский

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Crowdsourcing neuroscience: Inter-brain coupling during face-to-face interactions outside the laboratory

NeuroImage, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 227, P. 117436 - 117436

Published: Oct. 8, 2020

When we feel connected or engaged during social behavior, are our brains in fact "in sync" a formal, quantifiable sense? Most studies addressing this question use highly controlled tasks with homogenous subject pools. In an effort to take more naturalistic approach, collaborated art institutions crowdsource neuroscience data: Over the course of 5 years, collected electroencephalogram (EEG) data from thousands museum and festival visitors who volunteered engage 10-min face-to-face interaction. Pairs participants various levels familiarity sat inside Mutual Wave Machine—an artistic neurofeedback installation that translates real-time correlations each pair's EEG activity into light patterns. Because such inter-participant prone noise contamination, subsequent offline analyses computed inter-brain coupling using Imaginary Coherence Projected Power Correlations, two synchrony metrics largely immune instantaneous, noise-driven correlations. applying these methods subsets recorded most consistent protocols, found pairs' trait empathy, closeness, engagement, behavior (joint action eye contact) consistently predicted extent which their brain became synchronized, prominently low alpha (~7–10 Hz) beta (~20–22 oscillations. These findings support account where shared engagement joint drive coupled neural dynamic, interactions. To knowledge, work constitutes first demonstration interdisciplinary, real-world, crowdsourcing approach may provide promising method collect large, rich datasets pertaining real-life Additionally, it is how general public can participate scientific process outside laboratory. Institutions as museums, galleries, any other organization actively engages out self-motivation, help facilitate type citizen science research, collection large under scientifically experimental conditions. further enhance interest for out-of-the-lab results study disseminated through website tailored (wp.nyu.edu/mutualwavemachine).

Language: Английский

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