Sharing the social world via intersubject neural synchronisation

Lauri Nummenmaa; Juha M. Lahnakoski; Enrico Glerean

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.02.021

Sharing the social world via intersubject neural synchronisation

Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering

University of Turku
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

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Abstract

Sociability and capability of shared mental states are hallmarks of the human species, and pursuing shared goals oftentimes requires coordinating both behaviour and mental states. Here we review recent work using indices of intersubject neural synchronisation for measuring similarity of mental states across individuals. We discuss the methodological advances and limitations in the analyses based on intersubject synchrony, and discuss how these kinds of model-free analysis techniques enable the investigation of the brain basis of complex social processes. We argue that similarity of brain activity across individuals can be used, under certain conditions, to index the similarity of their subjective states of consciousness, and thus be used for investigating brain basis of mutual understanding and cooperation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-14
Number of pages	8
Journal	Current Opinion in Psychology
Volume	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.02.021
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2018
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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This research was supported by the Academy of Finland (grant # 294897 to LN), ERC Starting grant # 313000 to LN and Finnish Cultural Foundation (grant # 150496 to JML). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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