Neural substrates of shared attention as social memory: A hyperscanning functional magnetic resonance imaging study

NeuroImage

Volumn 125, Issue , 2016, Pages 401-412

  Koike, Takahiko ^a   Tanabe, Hiroki C ^a,b   Okazaki, Shuntaro ^a   Nakagawa, Eri ^a,c   Sasaki, Akihiro T ^a,d,e   Shimada, Koji ^a,f   Sugawara, Sho K ^a   Takahashi, Haruka K ^a,g   Yoshihara, Kazufumi ^a,h   Bosch Bayard, Jorge ^a,i   Sadato, Norihiro ^a,f,g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^g GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^h KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Eye blink synchronization; Hyperscanning; Inter individual neural synchronization; Joint attention; Mutual gaze; Shared attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARED ATTENTION; SOCIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN RELATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946219849     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.076     Document Type: Article

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