EEG hyperscanning study of inter-brain synchrony during cooperative and competitive interaction

Sinha, Nishant; Maszczyk, Tomasz; Wanxuan, Zhang; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Dauwels, Justin

doi:10.1109/smc.2016.7844990

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“…Furthermore, Cui et al (2012) found increased coherence between signals measured over the right superior frontal cortices between two brains in cooperative and not during competitive behavior. Supporting these findings, Sinha et al (2016) reported significantly higher inter-brain synchrony between the subjects when they cooperated as compared to the competitive scenario. Additionally, they found that inter-brain synchrony was enhanced considerably when the subjects were physically separated, i.e., they cooperated via an intranet network.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…Therefore, participants can either cooperate or compete to achieve their goal, and meanwhile, intra-and inter-brain activity is recorded. These include, for instance, the Prisoner's dilemma task (Babiloni et al, 2007a;De Vico Fallani et al, 2010), chicken's game , time estimation (Cui et al, 2012), turn-based interaction disk games (Liu et al, , 2016b, Jenga (Liu et al, 2016a), or pong-game (Sinha et al, 2016).…”

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Hyperscanning: A Valid Method to Study Neural Inter-brain Underpinnings of Social Interaction

Czeszumski

Eustergerling

Lang

et al. 2020

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Social interactions are a crucial part of human life. Understanding the neural underpinnings of social interactions is a challenging task that the hyperscanning method has been trying to tackle over the last two decades. Here, we review the existing literature and evaluate the current state of the hyperscanning method. We review the type of methods (fMRI, M/EEG, and fNIRS) that are used to measure brain activity from more than one participant simultaneously and weigh their pros and cons for hyperscanning. Further, we discuss different types of analyses that are used to estimate brain networks and synchronization. Lastly, we present results of hyperscanning studies in the context of different cognitive functions and their relations to social interactions. All in all, we aim to comprehensively present methods, analyses, and results from the last 20 years of hyperscanning research.

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Section: Cooperation and Competitionsupporting

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Section: Cooperation and Competitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hyperscanning: A Valid Method to Study Neural Inter-brain Underpinnings of Social Interaction

Czeszumski

Eustergerling

Lang

et al. 2020

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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239

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“…Social interaction and cooperative communication are of great importance in our daily lives. Previous studies have reported changes in adult-adult interpersonal neural connectivity during cooperative-competitive games (Astolfi et al, 2015;Astolfi et al, 2010;Ciaramidaro et al, 2018;Filho et al, 2016;Sinha et al, 2017), imitation (Delaherche et al, 2015), cooperative action Sciaraffa et al, 2017) and verbal spoken communication (Tadić et al, 2016). However, such dyadic neuroimaging studies have usually involved adult participants, and it is not known if, and how, infants' connectivity with their parents is also modulated by the emotional quality of social interaction.…”

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Emotional valence modulates the topology of the parent-infant inter-brain network

Santamaría¹,

Noreika²,

Georgieva³

et al. 2019

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Emotional communication between parents and children is crucial during early life, yet little is known about its neural underpinnings. Here, we adopt a dual-brain connectivity approach to assess how emotional valence modulates the parent-infant neural network.Fifteen mothers modelled positive and negative emotions toward pairs of objects during social interaction with their infants (aged 10.3 months) whilst their neural activity was concurrently measured using dual-EEG. Intra-brain and inter-brain network connectivity in the 6-9 Hz (infant Alpha) range was computed during maternal expression of positive and negative emotions using directed (partial directed coherence) and non-directed (phaselocking value) connectivity metrics. Graph theoretical metrics were used to quantify differences in network topology as a function of emotional valence. Inter-brain network indices (Density, Strength and Divisibility) consistently revealed that the integration of parents' and childrens' neural processes was significantly stronger during maternal demonstrations of positive than negative emotions. Further, directed inter-brain metrics indicated that mother-to-infant directional influences were stronger during the expression of positive than negative emotions. These results suggest that the parent-infant inter-brain network is modulated by the emotional quality and tone of dyadic social interactions, and that inter-brain graph metrics may be successfully applied to examine these changes in interpersonal network topology. (200/200 words) Keywords:EEG hyperscanning, network connectivity, graph theory, emotional expression, mother-infant interaction atypical patterns of EEG asymmetry, commonly showing higher right frontal EEG activity than controls (Gotlib et al., 1998). Recent research has also started to examine intraindividual network topology during emotion processing using graph-theoretic measures. For example, a recent study with adults showed that EEG graph-theoretic features performed better than traditionally used EEG features (such as spectral power and asymmetry) on the automatic classification of affective neural states (Gupta et al. , 2016).Behavioral and neuroimaging studies into early development suggest that the neural architecture for the detection and prioritized processing of emotional expressions, such as fear, emerges sometime during the first year of life (Hoehl, 2013; Hoehl et al.

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“…In another study by Sinha et al ( 2016 ) the authors investigated the effect of cooperative and competitive interactions with a game similar to table tennis. The aim is to defeat the competitor by striking a ball back and forth using a vertical bar (competition condition) or to act as a team to defeat a computer program (cooperative condition).…”

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Cooperation and Competition with Hyperscanning Methods: Review and Future Application to Emotion Domain

Balconi

Vanutelli

2017

Front. Comput. Neurosci.

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Cooperation and competition, as two common and opposite examples of interpersonal dynamics, are thought to be reflected by different cognitive, neural, and behavioral patterns. According to the conventional approach, they have been explored by measuring subjects' reactions during individual performance or turn-based interactions in artificial settings, that don't allow on-line, ecological enactment of real-life social exchange. Considering the importance of these factors, and accounting for the complexity of such phenomena, the hyperscanning approach emerged as a multi-subject paradigm since it allows the simultaneous recording of the brain activity from multiple participants interacting. In this view, the present paper aimed at reviewing the most significant work about cooperation and competition by EEG hyperscanning technique, which proved to be a promising tool in capturing the sudden course of social interactions. In detail, the review will consider and group different experimental tasks that have been developed so far: (1) paradigms that used rhythm, music and motor synchronization; (2) card tasks taken from the Game Theory; (3) computerized tasks; and (4) possible real-life applications. Finally, although highlighting the potential contribution of such approach, some important limitations about these paradigms will be elucidated, with a specific focus on the emotional domain.

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EEG hyperscanning study of inter-brain synchrony during cooperative and competitive interaction

Cited by 52 publications

References 16 publications

Hyperscanning: A Valid Method to Study Neural Inter-brain Underpinnings of Social Interaction

Hyperscanning: A Valid Method to Study Neural Inter-brain Underpinnings of Social Interaction

Emotional valence modulates the topology of the parent-infant inter-brain network

Cooperation and Competition with Hyperscanning Methods: Review and Future Application to Emotion Domain

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