Action Observation and Synchronization

This study explores inter-brain synchronization during minimal tactile interaction using EEG hyperscanning and identifies alpha-band connectivity patterns, though results are preliminary and not individually significant.

The paper investigates AOENs in multiple frontal areas, finding similar phasic responses and shared representations between action execution and observation.

The paper uses predictive processing theory to identify distinct brain regions involved in prediction formation and feedback processing during social cognition tasks, revealing functional dissociations in social brain networks.

This study uses machine learning to classify social connection based on DMN neural synchrony during conversations, finding that synchrony in specific brain regions predicts self-reported connection.

This study examines infra-slow EEG rhythms and bodily signals during social interaction, finding that inter-participant alignment in these signals correlates with mutual recognition.

This study shows that familiarity with tools affects how people visually explore them, with familiar tools leading to earlier and sustained attention on manipulative features.

This study shows that multi-person neurofeedback increases inter-brain coupling and social connectedness in dyads compared to a control group.

The paper investigates neural mechanisms underlying visuomotor co-regulation in social synchronization using fMRI, finding distinct brain activity patterns for joint action and non-interactive conditions.

This paper compares methods for analyzing brain synchrony in social interactions using simulations and proposes a new GLM-based approach that better captures dynamic relationships.

This study uses EEG hyperscanning to examine inter-brain similarity and connectivity during patient-acupuncturist interactions, finding that acupuncture affects both spatial correlation and specific frequency band connectivity.

This study investigates how neural entrainment and beta modulation contribute to self/other integration during joint action using virtual reality and EEG hyperscanning.

The paper examines how synchronous movement affects implicit self-concept and self-other blurring using the IAT and IOS scale, finding increased self-other blurring and altered semantic associations with synchronous group images.

This fMRI study investigates how prior expectations influence biological motion perception using predictive cueing, showing expectation-dependent modulation of the action observation network.

The paper evaluates how action, agent, and scene features predict cortical activity during natural vision and finds action features capture the most unique variance across the cortex.

The paper shows that the human cortex distinguishes naturalistic body motion from objects at the P2 stage, with similar body-specific modulation across human and monkey stimuli.

The paper shows that behavioral models of action purpose and social content better predict neural representational geometry than other models in the action observation network.

This study finds that synchronous marching increases conformity in perceptual decision-making tasks under low stimulus conditions.

This study uses pupillometry and whole-brain c-Fos mapping to show that emotional contagion in mice involves shared neural activation and multisensory processing.

This study examines motor and neural synchronization in mother-child dyads during structured and spontaneous interactions, finding that motor synchronization correlates with children's motor development.

This study investigates how age-related motor skills of agents performing actions influence perception/action coupling in adults using eye-tracking and pupil dilation.

This study uses eye-tracking to measure perception/action coupling in children with ASD by analyzing looking time and pupil dilation during video viewing of actions in forward and backward directions.

The paper examines mu suppression in different frequency subbands during action observation and finds stronger suppression in the lower subband for hand and facial actions.

The paper examines how repeated facial emotion imitation affects neural spatiotemporal patterns in the mirror neuron system over time.

The paper investigates how humans coordinate joint actions through neural representations, finding that integrated motor plans emerge during synchronized interactions but not during independent ones.

This study identifies distinct temporo-occipital nodes with different connectivity patterns related to action perception using fMRI and independent component analysis.

This study assesses the feasibility of real-time interbrain synchrony measurement using fNIRS and wavelet transform coherence for neurofeedback applications.

The paper identifies brain regions that represent action goals independently of outcomes using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis.

This study investigates the visual selectivity and motor role of AOENs in macaque ventral premotor cortex, finding they respond to abstract shapes and influence motor behavior.

The paper shows that mental imagery induces perceptual biases similar to predictive perception of observed actions, distorting judgments toward imagined action goals.