The human brain has evolved for group living [1Dunbar I.R. social hypothesis.in: Cacioppo J.T. Foundations in Social Neuroscience. MIT Press, 2002: 69-88Google Scholar]. Yet we know so little about how it supports dynamic interactions that the study of real-world exchanges been dubbed "dark matter neuroscience" [2Schilbach L. Timmermans B. Reddy V. Costall A. Bente G. Schlicht T. Vogeley K. Toward a second-person neuroscience.Behav. Brain Sci. 2013; 36: 393-414Crossref PubMed Scopus (890)...

How does the human brain support real-world learning? We used wireless electroencephalography to collect neurophysiological data from a group of 12 senior high school students and their teacher during regular biology lessons. Six scheduled classes over course semester were organized such that class materials presented using different teaching styles (videos lectures), completed multiple-choice quiz after each measure retention lesson's content. Both students' brain-to-brain synchrony content...

Real-world environments are typically dynamic, complex, and multisensory in nature require the support of top-down attention memory mechanisms for us to be able drive a car, make shopping list, or pour cup coffee. Fundamental principles perception functional brain organization have been established by research utilizing well-controlled but simplified paradigms with basic stimuli. The last 30 years ushered revolution computational power, mapping, signal processing techniques. Drawing on those...

Much of human learning happens through interaction with other people, but little is known about how this process reflected in the brains students and teachers. Here, we concurrently recorded electroencephalography (EEG) data from nine groups, each which contained four a teacher. All participants were young adults northeast United States. Alpha-band (8–12 Hz) brain-to-brain synchrony between predicted both immediate delayed posttest performance. Further, was higher specific lecture segments...

Syntactic factors can rapidly affect behavioral and neural responses during language processing; however, the mechanisms that allow this rapid extraction of syntactically relevant information remain poorly understood. We addressed issue using magnetoencephalography found an unexpected word category (e.g., "The recently princess . ") elicits enhanced activity in visual cortex as early 120 ms after exposure, occurs a function compatibility word's form with properties associated predicted...

Recent research has shown that the degree to which speakers and listeners exhibit similar brain activity patterns during human linguistic interaction is correlated with communicative success. Here, we used an intersubject correlation approach in fMRI test hypothesis a listener's ability predict speaker's utterance increases such neural coupling between listeners. Nine subjects listened recordings of speaker describing visual scenes varied they permitted specific predictions. In line our...

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)....

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...

Abstract Despite decades of research in economics and psychology attempting to identify ingredients that make up successful teams, neuroscientists have only just begun study how multiple brains interact. Recent has shown people’s brain activity becomes synchronized with others’ (inter-brain synchrony) during social engagement. However, little is known as whether inter-brain synchrony relates collective behavior within teams. Here, we merge the nascent field group neuroscience extant...

The bulk of social neuroscience takes a 'stimulus-brain' approach, typically comparing brain responses to different types stimuli, but most the time in absence direct interaction. Over last two decades, growing number researchers have adopted 'brain-to-brain' exploring similarities between patterns across participants as novel way gain insight into brain. This methodological shift has facilitated introduction naturalistic stimuli study design (e.g. movies) and, crucially, spurred development...

As the field of educational neuroscience continues to grow, questions have emerged regarding ecological validity and applicability this research practice. Recent advances in mobile neuroimaging technologies made it possible conduct neuroscientific studies directly naturalistic learning environments. We propose that embedding a cycle (Matusz, Dikker, Huth, & Perrodin, 2019), involving lab-based, seminaturalistic, fully experiments, is well suited for addressing questions. With review, we take...

Sitting at the nexus of brain and behavior, peripheral physiological signals provide a powerful window toward understanding body mind. However, currently available physiology sensing devices have number roadblocks for utilizing their data. Consumer-grade like FitBit Apple Watch are easy to wear on wrist but very limited access consumer-grade data derived by black-box signal processing algorithms, which can make it difficult interpret in research contexts. On other hand, research-grade (e.g....

Summary Little is known about the brain mechanisms that underpin how humans learn while interacting with one another in ecologically-valid environments (1-3). This because cognitive neuroscientists typically measure participant at a time highly constrained environment (e.g., inside scanner). In past few years, researchers have begun comparing responses across individuals (4-6) demonstrating brain-to-brain synchrony can predict subsequent memory retention (7-9). Yet previous research has been...

Cognitive neuroscience research is typically conducted in controlled laboratory environments and therefore its contribution to our understanding of learning real-world limited. In recent years, however, portable wearable brain devices have become more readily available for classroom-based research. Complementing existing education methods, these emerging technologies could provide information about processes that might not be reflected classroom observations or learners’ self-reports. This...

Resonance, a powerful and pervasive phenomenon, appears to play major role in human interactions. This article investigates the relationship between physical mechanism of resonance experience resonance, considers possibilities for enhancing within human-robot We first introduce as widespread cultural scientific metaphor. Then, we review nature "sympathetic resonance" mechanism. Following this introduction, remainder is organized two parts. In part one, (including synchronization rhythmic...

Abstract Research indicates that interpersonal synchronisation leads to more closeness, mutual coordination, alliance, or affiliation between the synchronized persons. There is a pathway leading from interaction synchronisation, and then affiliation. If persons act on temporal patterns of synchrony, this suggests they possess facility detect such patterns. Therefore, we assume here indeed when synchrony occur stronger connection may grow detection. We developed multi-adaptive agent model...

Abstract Researchers, parents and educators consistently observe a stark mismatch between biologically preferred socially imposed sleep–wake hours in adolescents, fueling debate about high school start times. We contribute neural evidence to this with electroencephalogram data collected from students during their regular morning, mid-morning afternoon classes. Overall, student alpha power was lower when class content taught via videos than through lectures. Students’ resting state brain...

Humans are inherently driven to build meaningful relationships, but attempts socially connect with others not always successful. This study investigates whether social connectedness can be improved by intentionally regulating inter-brain coupling, a neural correlate of successful interactions. Using multi-person neurofeedback system (i.e., multi-brain computer interface), we showed dyads real-time visualizations the extent which their brainwaves (EEG signals) were "in sync". Our results...

Joint decision-making can be seen as the synchronization of actions and emotions, usually via nonverbal interaction between people while they show empathy. The aim current paper was (1) to develop an adaptive computational model for type synchrony that occur in joint two persons modeled agents, (2) visualize by avatars virtual agents during their decision-making. How computationally taking into account adaptivity is rarely addressed, although such models based on psychological literature...

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in studies measuring brain activity, physiological responses, and/or movement data from multiple individuals during social interaction. For example, so-called “hyperscanning” research has demonstrated that activity may become synchronized across people as function of range factors. Such findings not only underscore the potential hyperscanning techniques to capture meaningful aspects naturalistic interactions, but also raise possibility can be...