Action Observation and Synchronization

Shared Pain, Shared Decisions: How Empathy Shapes Social Conformity Through Physiology and Visual Attention

This study investigates how empathy influences social conformity through physiological arousal, visual attention, and socio-emotional traits using a combination of behavioral and physiological measures.

DOES EXPERIENCE MODULATE AUTOMATIC IMITATION? A NEW LOOK

This study investigates how counter-imitative training modulates automatic imitation over time, challenging the associative sequence learning framework.

Hierarchical and Context-Dependent Encoding of Actions in Human Posterior Parietal and Motor Cortex

This study investigates how human motor and parietal cortex encode actions during intention and observation, finding context-dependent encoding in parietal cortex and intention-specific encoding in motor cortex.

Social interactions between people of same and different generationsshape longitudinal changes in interpersonal neural synchrony,loneliness, and social connection

The paper examines how intergenerational and same-generation social interactions affect longitudinal changes in neural synchrony, loneliness, and social connection over a creative drawing program.

Two-brain states characterise within- and between-brain connectivity during intergenerational collaborative drawing

The paper identifies two-brain states during collaborative drawing, showing intergenerational dyads exhibit asymmetric connectivity patterns compared to same-generation dyads.

Inter-brain functional connectivity: Are we measuring the right thing?

This study evaluates how inter-individual frequency differences affect connectivity metrics in MEG/EEG hyperscanning and finds that amplitude envelope correlation is more reliable than phase-based metrics.

Decoding the neural stages from action and object recognition to mentalizing

The paper uses fMRI to analyze how brain networks process action, object, and mental state information, finding overlapping networks in left-lateralized regions that integrate conceptual and mentalizing information.

How do we align in good conversation? Investigating the link between interaction quality and multimodal interpersonal coordination

The paper examines how speech-to-speech, brain-to-speech, and brain-to-brain coordination relate to interaction quality and mutual affinity in conversations.

Involuntary feedback responses reflect a representation of partner actions

The paper shows that involuntary visuomotor feedback responses reflect a partner representation and consider the partner's movement cost during cooperative tasks.

Direction Selectivity in Naturalistic Action Observation: Distributed Representations Across the Action Observation Network

This study uses fMRI and MVPA/RSA to show that direction selectivity in action observation is distributed across multiple brain regions, including early visual and higher-order parietal and frontal areas.

Cortical plasticity of the tactile mirror system in borderline personality disorder

This study investigates cortical plasticity in the tactile mirror system of individuals with borderline personality disorder using cross-modal paired associative stimulation.

Empathy for pain persists across live two-way video interactions and viewing of prerecorded videos

This study investigates how live video interactions versus prerecorded videos affect empathy for pain, finding that neural and physiological empathy responses are not diminished by reduced temporal presence.

Common and distinct neural correlates of social interaction perception and theory of mind

The paper examines the neural correlates of social interaction perception and theory of mind using fMRI, finding overlapping and distinct brain regions involved in these processes.

Cardiac synchrony during collaborative drawing: A longitudinal comparison of same generation and intergenerational dyads

This study compares cardiac synchrony in intergenerational and same-generation dyads during collaborative drawing, finding no significant covariation with group or task but a marginal trend in intergenerational dyads.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.