Action Observation and Synchronization

Perceiving troubles from others: a behavioral and fMRI study

This study compares behavioral and neural differences between physical and observational motor learning under disruption, finding comparable outcomes but distinct neural strategies.

Bottom-up and generative computations uniquely explain neural responses across the social brain

This study compares two computational models of social perception and inference against fMRI data, finding both explain neural activity in social brain regions.

Multivariate Transfer Entropy Quantifies Information Transfer Between Dyadic Partners During Real-Time Perceptual Decision-Making

This study uses multivariate transfer entropy to analyze real-time social information transfer during perceptual decision-making in dyadic interactions.

A comprehensive EEG dataset for investigating visual touch perception

The paper presents a comprehensive EEG dataset with self-report measures to study visual touch perception and its neural basis.

Respiratory synchrony and individual differences causally influence dyadic interpersonal coordination

In musical dyads, perturbing breathing disrupts both respiratory and auditory-motor synchronization whereas perturbing tapping disrupts only behavior, demonstrating a unidirectional causal influence from respiration to behavioral coordination.

Rational Expectations and Kinematic Information in Coordination Games

This study shows people prioritize kinematic cues over rational expectations when coordinating in a game, choosing lower payoffs when early movement signals indicate a partner's choice.

Pragmatic representations of self- and others action in the monkey putamen

This study investigates how the monkey putamen represents self- and others' actions during social interaction, finding that neurons selectively encode these actions and that viewing the partner's action is not necessary for encoding.

Analyzing Gaze and Hand Movement Patterns in Leader-Follower Interactions During a Time-Continuous Cooperative Manipulation Task

The paper analyzes gaze and hand movement patterns in leader-follower interactions during a cooperative manipulation task, finding distinct decision-making strategies between roles.

Heart rate synchrony as a marker of real-world social engagement: modulated by proximity, social familiarity, and acoustic environment

The paper investigates how heart rate synchrony (IPS) is influenced by proximity, social familiarity, and acoustic environment in naturalistic social settings.

Empathy Accelerates Subjective Time Perception, Independent of Physiology but Not of Visual Attention

This study shows empathy speeds up perceived time, independent of physiological arousal but linked to visual attention, with trait empathy and autism quotient influencing the effect.

Title: You Are What You Sync: Neural Synchronization Predicts Religious Affiliation

This study finds that neural synchronization during narrative processing predicts religious affiliation with 92% accuracy, suggesting it reflects group cohesion mechanisms.

Neural encoding of biomechanically (im)possible human movements in occipitotemporal cortex

This study uses fMRI to show that occipitotemporal cortex encodes biomechanically possible and impossible movements, with different regions processing detailed biomechanical features versus abstract categorical information.

Unlocking information alignment between interacting brains

This study uses Interbrain RSA on EEG hyperscanning to show that interbrain information alignment occurs rapidly and strengthens with practice during social interactions.

The sensorimotor basis of subjective experience in social synchronization behavior

This study uses information-theoretic measures to quantify the sensorimotor contingencies in social synchronization tasks and links them to subjective experiences of synchronicity and creativity.

Top-Down Modulation of Visual Action Perception: Distinct Task Effects in the Action Observation Network

This study examines how attention modulates the Action Observation Network during action perception using fMRI, finding task-specific effects in different AON regions.

Reading about sensations recruits the posterior insula: An intracranial EEG study

This study uses intracranial EEG to show that reading sensation-related sentences activates the posterior insula earlier and more intensely than other semantic categories.

The neural basis of emotional generalization in empathy

This study investigates how the brain generalizes emotions across individuals, finding that the insula encodes emotions and persons separately, enabling cross-person generalization.

Interpersonal Neural Synchrony Across Levels of Interpersonal Closeness and Social Interactivity

This study examines how interpersonal closeness and social interactivity affect neural synchrony using hyperscanning, finding that true dyads show higher synchrony than surrogates, with variations by dyad type and interaction condition.

An EEG Investigation of Neural Dynamics of Empathy Influenced by Congruent and Incongruent Pain Expressions in Autistic and Neurotypical Adults

This study investigates neural dynamics of empathy in autistic and neurotypical adults during pain observation, finding shared and distinct neural patterns in empathy processing and conflict resolution.

Auditory Stimulus Information Entropy Modulates Inter-Brain Synchronization: Evidence from Wireless EEG Hyperscanning

This study shows that higher auditory stimulus entropy increases inter-brain synchronization at 6 Hz, with frequency-specific effects observed in phase-locking values.

Hierarchical priors enable neural prediction of perceived biological motion

The paper investigates how neural processing of biological motion is shaped by low- and high-level priors using dynamic representational similarity analysis on MEG data.

Altered Interpersonal Neural Synchronization during Social Interaction After Shared Excluded Experiences in Depressed Adolescents

This study examines how shared excluded experiences affect interpersonal neural synchronization in depressed adolescents compared to healthy controls, finding altered brain-behavior patterns and stronger neural synchronization in depressed adolescents.

Wavelet analysis of dual-fMRI-hyperscanning reveals cooperation and communication dependent effects on inter-brain neuronal coherence.

The paper uses dual-fMRI-hyperscanning and wavelet transform coherence to analyze inter-brain neuronal coherence during social cooperation and competition tasks, showing increased coherence in social interaction and theory of mind networks.

Distinct perceptual and conceptual representations of natural actions along the lateral and dorsal visual streams: an EEG-fMRI fusion study

This study uses EEG-fMRI fusion to show distinct perceptual and conceptual processing of natural actions in the lateral and dorsal visual streams, with specific encoding of action targets in LOTC and pSTS.

Similarity in Spontaneous Tempo Impacts Flow Experience and Coordination Dynamics During Joint Performance

This study examines how individual spontaneous tempo affects coordination and flow experience during joint improvisation tasks, finding greater flow with similar tempi and more dynamic coordination with less similarity.

From Individual to Shared Tempo: How Spontaneous Tempo Preferences Impact Joint Performance

This study examines how individuals with different spontaneous tempo preferences adjust their rhythms during joint tasks, finding they converge on a common tempo while retaining personal biases.

Neural activation down to the spinal cord during action language? A transcranial magnetic stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation study.

This study investigates whether action language modulates spinal motor pathways, finding no effect on high-threshold motoneurons during action reading, unlike motor imagery.

EARLY TARGET PREDICTION IN ACTION OBSERVATION

The paper investigates how humans predict action targets using kinematic information and compares human performance with machine learning models.

Progressively shifting patterns of co-modulation among premotor cortex neurons carry dynamically similar signals during action execution and observation

The paper examines co-modulation patterns in premotor cortex neurons during action execution and observation, finding that while subspaces are distinct, latent dynamics show partial similarity.

Predictive processing in biological motion perception: Evidence from human behavior

This study examines how expectations influence biological motion perception using point-light displays, finding that action-related cues significantly affect response times in specific conditions.