Neuronal Oscillatory Signatures of Joint Attention and Intersubjectivity in Arrhythmic Coaction

Hyper-brain studies analyze the brain activity of two or more individuals during some form of interaction. Several studies found signs of inter-subject brain activity coordination, such as power and phase synchronization or information flow. This hyper-brain coordination is frequently studied in par...

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Autores principales: Alexander Maÿe, Tiezhi Wang, Andreas K. Engel
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:469b4f50323c4587beada5bc7747a6512021-11-05T16:18:02ZNeuronal Oscillatory Signatures of Joint Attention and Intersubjectivity in Arrhythmic Coaction1662-516110.3389/fnhum.2021.767208https://doaj.org/article/469b4f50323c4587beada5bc7747a6512021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.767208/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1662-5161Hyper-brain studies analyze the brain activity of two or more individuals during some form of interaction. Several studies found signs of inter-subject brain activity coordination, such as power and phase synchronization or information flow. This hyper-brain coordination is frequently studied in paradigms which induce rhythms or even synchronization, e.g., by mirroring movements, turn-based activity in card or economic games, or joint music making. It is therefore interesting to figure out in how far coordinated brain activity may be induced by a rhythmicity in the task and/or the sensory feedback that the partners receive. We therefore studied the EEG brain activity of dyads in a task that required the smooth pursuit of a target and did not involve any extrinsic rhythms. Partners controlled orthogonal axes of the two-dimensional motion of an object that had to be kept on the target. Using several methods for analyzing hyper-brain coupling, we could not detect signs of coordinated brain activity. However, we found several brain regions in which the frequency-specific activity significantly correlated with the objective task performance, the subjective experience thereof, and of the collaboration. Activity in these regions has been linked to motor control, sensorimotor integration, executive control and emotional processing. Our results suggest that neural correlates of intersubjectivity encompass large parts of brain areas that are considered to be involved in sensorimotor control without necessarily coordinating their activity across agents.Alexander MaÿeTiezhi WangAndreas K. EngelFrontiers Media S.A.articlenon-rhythmic interactionself-perceptionjoint attentionsocial cognitionhyper-scanningEEGNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. NeuropsychiatryRC321-571ENFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol 15 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic non-rhythmic interaction
self-perception
joint attention
social cognition
hyper-scanning
EEG
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
RC321-571
spellingShingle non-rhythmic interaction
self-perception
joint attention
social cognition
hyper-scanning
EEG
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
RC321-571
Alexander Maÿe
Tiezhi Wang
Andreas K. Engel
Neuronal Oscillatory Signatures of Joint Attention and Intersubjectivity in Arrhythmic Coaction
description Hyper-brain studies analyze the brain activity of two or more individuals during some form of interaction. Several studies found signs of inter-subject brain activity coordination, such as power and phase synchronization or information flow. This hyper-brain coordination is frequently studied in paradigms which induce rhythms or even synchronization, e.g., by mirroring movements, turn-based activity in card or economic games, or joint music making. It is therefore interesting to figure out in how far coordinated brain activity may be induced by a rhythmicity in the task and/or the sensory feedback that the partners receive. We therefore studied the EEG brain activity of dyads in a task that required the smooth pursuit of a target and did not involve any extrinsic rhythms. Partners controlled orthogonal axes of the two-dimensional motion of an object that had to be kept on the target. Using several methods for analyzing hyper-brain coupling, we could not detect signs of coordinated brain activity. However, we found several brain regions in which the frequency-specific activity significantly correlated with the objective task performance, the subjective experience thereof, and of the collaboration. Activity in these regions has been linked to motor control, sensorimotor integration, executive control and emotional processing. Our results suggest that neural correlates of intersubjectivity encompass large parts of brain areas that are considered to be involved in sensorimotor control without necessarily coordinating their activity across agents.
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author Alexander Maÿe
Tiezhi Wang
Andreas K. Engel
author_facet Alexander Maÿe
Tiezhi Wang
Andreas K. Engel
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title Neuronal Oscillatory Signatures of Joint Attention and Intersubjectivity in Arrhythmic Coaction
title_short Neuronal Oscillatory Signatures of Joint Attention and Intersubjectivity in Arrhythmic Coaction
title_full Neuronal Oscillatory Signatures of Joint Attention and Intersubjectivity in Arrhythmic Coaction
title_fullStr Neuronal Oscillatory Signatures of Joint Attention and Intersubjectivity in Arrhythmic Coaction
title_full_unstemmed Neuronal Oscillatory Signatures of Joint Attention and Intersubjectivity in Arrhythmic Coaction
title_sort neuronal oscillatory signatures of joint attention and intersubjectivity in arrhythmic coaction
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate 2021
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