Live face-to-face interaction during fMRI: a new tool for social cognitive neuroscience.

ABSTRACT: Cooperative social interaction is critical for human social development and learning. Despite the importance of social interaction, previous neuroimaging studies lack two fundamental components of everyday face-to-face interactions: contingent responding and joint attention. In the current studies, functional MRI data were collected while participants interacted with a human experimenter face-to-face via live video feed as they engaged in simple cooperative games. In Experiment 1, participants engaged in a live interaction with the experimenter ("Live") or watched a video of the same interaction ("Recorded"). During the "Live" interaction, as compared to the Recorded conditions, greater activation was seen in brain regions involved in social cognition and reward, including the right tempor

SUBMITTER: Redcay E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2849986 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature