Action Observation and Synchronization

Left Temporoparietal Neural Synchrony Tracks Cooperative Performance Across Adult Dyads

The paper examines neural synchrony in dyads during a cooperative task and finds it varies with relationship type and performance metrics.

Asymmetric listening conditions perturb verbal and nonverbal coordination dynamics during conversation

This study examines how asymmetric listening conditions affect verbal and nonverbal coordination in conversations, finding altered turn-taking and movement dynamics under noise.

Action-related brain dynamics during leader-follower coordination

This study examines brain dynamics during leader-follower coordination using MEG and kinematics, finding distinct spectral patterns in leaders and followers.

Tetradic Dynamics of Dyadic Sensorimotor Coordination: A Multiscale EEG Hyperscanning Study

This study investigates how leader and follower roles shape brain mechanisms in dyadic sensorimotor coordination using EEG hyperscanning, finding role-specific neural patterns and dissociating automatic from controlled coordination.

The Physiological Architecture of Groups: Multi-Channel Synchrony Networks Map Individual Perceptions and Collective Behavior

This paper shows that physiological group synchrony can be analyzed as a network topology, revealing how synchronization is distributed across individuals and relationships, rather than just as an aggregate of pairwise alignments.

rpSTS Stimulation Disrupts Shared Neural Responses to Social Content during Naturalistic Viewing

This study shows that stimulating the right posterior superior temporal sulcus (rpSTS) disrupts shared neural responses to social content during movie watching, suggesting its role in encoding common social information.

Wavelet Transform Coherence Under Controlled Temporal Correspondence and Social Co-Presence: Implications for fNIRS Hyperscanning

This study evaluates wavelet transform coherence (WTC) in fNIRS hyperscanning, showing it reliably detects temporal correspondence but is context-sensitive, particularly influenced by social co-presence.

Communication as a Two-Person Neural Process: fNIRS Hyperscanning in Adults with and without Post-Stroke Aphasia

This paper uses fNIRS hyperscanning to study interbrain synchrony during communication in healthy adults and those with post-stroke aphasia, showing task-dependent neural coupling.

Respiration and individual differences shape behavioral and inter-brain synchronization

This study examines how respiration and individual differences affect behavioral and inter-brain synchronization during musical coordination tasks.

EEG mu rhythms and trait empathy during observation of a romantic partner's pain with and without consoling touch

This study examines how observing a romantic partner in pain affects mu rhythms in EEG, finding increased mu rhythms without significant change from consoling touch.

Social attention and coordinated movement produce dissociable spectral and network changes during dyadic improvisational dance

The paper examines neural effects of different social and movement components during dyadic dance, finding dissociable spectral and network changes associated with social attention, verbal engagement, and coordinated movement.

Human see, human do? Viewing tool pictures evokes tool-use action information in hand-selective occipitotemporal cortex

This study investigates whether viewing tool pictures activates neural representations of tool-use actions in brain regions associated with hand-selective processing, finding that action-related information is present but not shared across perception and action tasks.

Amplitude without phase: interpersonal movement coordination grades inter-brain coupling

The paper shows that inter-brain coupling during interpersonal movement coordination is characterized by fast-band amplitude-envelope coupling, not phase synchrony, and is predicted by movement synchrony.

The transition from spontaneous to preparatory movement in infancy

This study shows that 3-month-old infants exhibit pupil dilation before self-initiated movements, indicating early signs of action preparation and prediction.

The Choreography of Coupled Brains: Coordinated Movement and Multi-Scale Neural Synchrony in Musical Theater for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

This study examines neural synchrony during musical theater performances in individuals with developmental disabilities, finding increased brain activity and inter-brain coupling linked to coordinated movement.

Cultural echoes in social bonding: Universal and culture-specific effects of movement synchrony and music on connectedness, likeability, and well-being

This study examines how movement synchrony and music affect social bonding in individualistic and collectivistic cultures, finding universal prosocial effects and culture-specific nuances.

Friendship modulates physical effort and neural dynamics during group coordination in shared social networks

The paper examines how friendship asymmetry in social networks affects physical effort and neural dynamics during group coordination tasks.

Watching Others Lift Objects: Corticospinal Excitability is Greater During the Observation of Light than Heavy Lifts

This study investigates corticospinal excitability during observation of light and heavy lifts, finding greater excitability for light lifts in an unpredictable context.

Neural and behavioural manifold dynamics align across interacting individuals

This study identifies low-dimensional neural manifolds that align across interacting individuals during coordinated tasks, revealing a novel mechanism for interpersonal coordination through dynamic neural updates.

Aging and reorganization of the neural hierarchy underlying action perception: older adults prioritize affective-communicative information

This study investigates age differences in action perception by analyzing brain activity and similarity judgments, finding older adults prioritize affective-communicative information over visual and action-related features.

Visual and auditory deep learning models capture neural representations of naturalistic social interaction in the superior temporal sulcus

The paper uses deep learning models to show that the superior temporal sulcus represents naturalistic social interactions through multimodal integration of visual and auditory information.

A longitudinal fNIRS hyperscanning dataset of same generation and intergenerational relationship development and collaboration

The paper presents and validates a longitudinal hyperscanning dataset exploring neural and behavioral aspects of relationship formation between same-generation and intergenerational dyads.

Explainable Decoding of Sensorimotor Communication in Joint Object Manipulation

This study decodes human intent during collaborative object manipulation using multimodal signals and explains how sensorimotor communication occurs through action.

Symmetry breaking and social coordination in children: Using group theory to understand emergent patterns of multi-agent coordination

This study uses group theory to show that environmental symmetry constraints collective coordination in children's triadic jumping tasks, with dispositional asymmetries modulating the patterns.

Neural geometry of social knowledge emerging from observed social interactions

This study develops a computational framework to reconstruct social cognitive maps from brain activity during social interactions, showing that relational geometry predicts personality traits.

Scale-dependent spatial organisation of action observation network responses to hand actions and emotional faces

The paper examines how responses to hand actions and emotional faces in the action-observation network (AON) vary with spatial analysis scale, finding scale-dependent convergence.

Rule-dependent transformation of observed actions into self-actions in macaque ventral premotor cortex

This study shows that PMv activity during action observation reflects variables related to the observer's own action rather than just the observed action.

The Live Concert of Brains: Performer-Audience Neural Coupling Links Ensemble Coordination to Shared Audience Integration

This paper investigates how performer-audience neural coupling links ensemble coordination to shared audience integration during live music performances.

Preserved Spontaneous Interpersonal Entrainment during Rhythmic Synchronization in Autism Spectrum Disorder

This study examines spontaneous interpersonal entrainment in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and finds comparable effects to neurotypical individuals under stable conditions.

Personal network features are embodied in real-time social interaction dynamics

The paper shows that real-time interaction behaviors reflect personal social network structure, independent of personality effects.