Hyper-brain networks support romantic kissing in humans.

ABSTRACT: Coordinated social interaction is associated with, and presumably dependent on, oscillatory couplings within and between brains, which, in turn, consist of an interplay across different frequencies. Here, we introduce a method of network construction based on the cross-frequency coupling (CFC) and examine whether coordinated social interaction is associated with CFC within and between brains. Specifically, we compare the electroencephalograms (EEG) of 15 heterosexual couples during romantic kissing to kissing one's own hand, and to kissing one another while performing silent arithmetic. Using graph-theory methods, we identify theta-alpha hyper-brain networks, with alpha serving a cleaving or pacemaker function. Network strengths were higher and characteristic path lengths shorter when indi

SUBMITTER: Muller V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4222975 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature