MEG dual scanning: a procedure to study real-time auditory interaction between two persons

Baess, Pamela; Zhdanov, Andrey; Mandel, Anne; Parkkonen, Lauri; Hirvenkari, Lotta; Mäkelä, Jyrki P.; Jousmäki, Veikko; Hari, Riitta

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00083

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“…In particular, future research will have to find ways of quantifying interpersonal coordination in order to relate such measurements to neuroimaging data. In this respect, it has been suggested to extend the neuroscientific investigation of interpersonally relevant gaze behavior to dyads by using live video feeds (e.g., Baess et al, 2012;Dumas, Nadel, Soussignan, Martinerie, & Garnero, 2010;Guionnet et al, 2012;Redcay et al, 2010;Saito et al, 2010). While this is a feasible option, it does come with the disadvantage of a reduction of experimental control.…”

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The Neural Correlates of Social Cognition and Social Interaction

Schilbach¹

2015

Brain Mapping

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The Neural Correlates of Social Cognition and Social Interaction

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2015

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“…The data were collected during a two-person magnetoencephalography (MEG) experiment, using a MEG2MEG setup (Baess et al, 2012) but only the behavioral results will be reported here. Participants were seated in separate rooms and, depending on the task condition, they had either an audio-only connection (microphones and headphones), or an audiovisual connection where they could also see a video feed of the other participant in natural size on a projection screen positioned 1 m in front of them.…”

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Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

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Kendrick

Casillas

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The core use of language is in face-to-face conversation. This is characterized by rapid turn-taking. This turn-taking poses a number central puzzles for the psychology of language. Consider, for example, that in large corpora the gap between turns is on the order of 100 to 300 ms, but the latencies involved in language production require minimally between 600ms (for a single word) or 1500 ms (for as simple sentence). This implies that participants in conversation are predicting the ends of the incoming turn and preparing in advance. But how is this done? What aspects of this prediction are done when? What happens when the prediction is wrong? What stops participants coming in too early? If the system is running on prediction, why is there consistently a mode of 100 to 300 ms in response time? The timing puzzle raises further puzzles: it seems that comprehension must run parallel with the preparation for production, but it has been presumed that there are strict cognitive limitations on more than one central process running at a time. How is this bottleneck overcome? Far from being 'easy' as some psychologists have suggested, conversation may be one of the most demanding cognitive tasks in our everyday lives. Further questions naturally arise: how do children learn to master this demanding task, and what is the developmental trajectory in this domain? Research shows that aspects of turn-taking such as its timing are remarkably stable across languages and cultures, but the word order of languages varies enormously. How then does prediction of the incoming turn work when the verb (often the informational nugget in a clause) is at the end? Conversely, how can production work fast enough in languages that have the verb at the beginning, thereby requiring early planning of the whole clause? What happens when one changes modality, as in sign languages -- with the loss of channel constraints is turn-taking much freer? And what about face-to-face communication amongst hearing individuals -- do gestures, gaze, and other body behaviors facilitate turn-taking? One can also ask the phylogenetic question: how did such a system evolve? There seem to be parallels (analogies) in duetting bird species, and in a variety of monkey species, but there is little evidence of anything like this among the great apes. All this constitutes a neglected set of problems at the heart of the psychology of language and of the language sciences. This research topic welcomes contributions from right across the board, for example from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialogue and conversation analysis, linguists interested in the use of language, phoneticians, corpus analysts and comparative ethologists or psychologists. We welcome contributions of all sorts, for example original research papers, opinion pieces, and reviews of work in subfields that may not be fully understood in other subfields

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“…Hari et al [54] recently dissected the different levels of brain imaging of social cognition and interaction into single-person studies ('one-person neuroscience', 1PN) and two-person set-ups ('two-person neuroscience', 2PN [2,55,56]). The 1PN set-ups have evolved from presentation of well-defined artificial stimuli (such as chessboard patterns and isolated tones), to the use of complex social stimuli, such as faces or body postures, and then finally to presentation of dynamic stimuli, such as movies.…”

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“…Whether these two-person settings should be used despite their complexity depends on the timing of the studied interaction [54]: all two-person studies where the interaction is slow, such as text messaging or playing an economical-decision game, can be replaced by clever pseudo-hyperscanning set-ups where the two persons are alternatingly subjected to brain scanning. However, during conversation, for example, the turn-taking takes such a short time that the interaction can be captured only in simultaneous time-sensitive 2PN recordings [56].…”

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Attending to and neglecting people: bridging neuroscience, psychology and sociology

Hari

Sams

Nummenmaa

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 15 to a theme issue 'Attending to and neglecting people'. Human behaviour is context-dependent-based on predictions and influenced by the environment and other people. We live in a dynamic world where both the social stimuli and their context are constantly changing. Similar dynamic, natural stimuli should, in the future, be increasingly used to study social brain functions, with parallel development of appropriate signal-analysis methods. Understanding dynamic neural processes also requires accurate time-sensitive characterization of the behaviour. To go beyond the traditional stimulus-response approaches, brain activity should be recorded simultaneously from two interacting subjects to reveal why human social interaction is critically different from just reacting to each other. This theme issue on Attending to and neglecting people contains original work and review papers on person perception and social interaction. The articles cover research from neuroscience, psychology, robotics, animal interaction research and microsociology. Some of the papers are co-authored by scientists who presented their own, independent views in the recent Attention and Performance XXVI conference but were brave enough to join forces with a colleague having a different background and views. In the future, information needs to converge across disciplines to provide us a more holistic view of human behaviour, its interactive nature, as well as the temporal dynamics of our social world.

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MEG dual scanning: a procedure to study real-time auditory interaction between two persons

Cited by 61 publications

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The Neural Correlates of Social Cognition and Social Interaction

The Neural Correlates of Social Cognition and Social Interaction

Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction

Attending to and neglecting people: bridging neuroscience, psychology and sociology

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