Brain Synchrony in Competition and Collaboration During Multiuser Neurofeedback-Based Gaming.

ABSTRACT: EEG hyperscanning during multiuser gaming offers opportunities to study brain characteristics of social interaction under various paradigms. In this study, we aimed to characterize neural signatures and phase-based functional connectivity patterns of gaming strategies during collaborative and competitive alpha neurofeedback games. Twenty pairs of participants with no close relationship took part in three sessions of collaborative or competitive multiuser neurofeedback (NF), with identical graphical user interface, using Relative Alpha (RA) power as a control signal. Collaborating dyads had to keep their RA within 5% of each other for the team to be awarded a point, while members of competitive dyads scored points if their RA was 10% above their opponent's. Interbrain synchrony existed only

SUBMITTER: Susnoschi Luca I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10790838 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature