Steady Beat Sound Facilitates both Coordinated Group Walking and Inter-Subject Neural Synchrony.

ABSTRACT: Group walking is a collective social interaction task as pedestrians are required to determine their own pace of walking on the basis of surrounding others' states. The steady beat sound is known to be a controllable factor that contributes to relative success/failure of coordinated group walking since the beat improves pedestrian flow in congested situation. According to some reports, inter-personal interaction synchronizes inter-personal brain activity in the prefrontal region, which supports social cognitive processes required for successful inter-individual coordination, such as predicting each other's state; success/failure of a coordinated task is associated with increase/decrease in inter-subject neural synchrony (INS). Combining these previous findings, we hypothesized that INS dur

SUBMITTER: Ikeda S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5366316 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature