Stay tuned: Inter-individual neural synchronization during mutual gaze and joint attention

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER 2010, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Saito, Daisuke N ^a,b,c   Tanabe, Hiroki C ^a,b   Izuma, Keise ^a,b   Hayashi, Masamichi J ^a,b   Morito, Yusuke ^a,b,c   Komeda, Hidetsugu ^a   Uchiyama, Hitoshi ^a   Kosaka, Hirotaka ^d   Okazawa, Hidehiko ^d   Fujibayashi, Yasuhisa ^d   Sadato, Norihiro ^a,b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eye contact; Functional MRI; Hyper scan; Joint attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; JOINT ATTENTION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEURAL SYNCHRONIZATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OCCIPITAL POLE; POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80455140894     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2010.00127     Document Type: Article

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