Brain-to-brain coupling: A mechanism for creating and sharing a social world

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 114-121

  Hasson, Uri ^a   Ghazanfar, Asif A ^a   Galantucci, Bruno ^b,c   Garrod, Simon ^d,e   Keysers, Christian ^f,g  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action perception; Coupled oscillations; Joint action; Mother infant; Social neuroscience; Speaker listener neural coupling

Indexed keywords

ACTION-PERCEPTION; COUPLED OSCILLATIONS; JOINT ACTIONS; MOTHER-INFANT; SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

COORDINATION REACTIONS;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LEARNING; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OSCILLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOCALIZATION;

COGNITION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856363753     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.12.007     Document Type: Review

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