Brain activity during reciprocal social interaction investigated using conversational robots as control condition.

ABSTRACT: We present a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm for second-person neuroscience. The paradigm compares a human social interaction (human-human interaction, HHI) to an interaction with a conversational robot (human-robot interaction, HRI). The social interaction consists of 1 min blocks of live bidirectional discussion between the scanned participant and the human or robot agent. A final sample of 21 participants is included in the corpus comprising physiological (blood oxygen level-dependent, respiration and peripheral blood flow) and behavioural (recorded speech from all interlocutors, eye tracking from the scanned participant, face recording of the human and robot agents) data. Here, we present the first analysis of this corpus, contrasting neural activity between HHI an

SUBMITTER: Rauchbauer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6452252 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature