Comparison of Human Social Brain Activity During Eye-Contact With Another Human and a Humanoid Robot.

ABSTRACT: Robot design to simulate interpersonal social interaction is an active area of research with applications in therapy and companionship. Neural responses to eye-to-eye contact in humans have recently been employed to determine the neural systems that are active during social interactions. Whether eye-contact with a social robot engages the same neural system remains to be seen. Here, we employ a similar approach to compare human-human and human-robot social interactions. We assume that if human-human and human-robot eye-contact elicit similar neural activity in the human, then the perceptual and cognitive processing is also the same for human and robot. That is, the robot is processed similar to the human. However, if neural effects are different, then perceptual and cognitive processing is

SUBMITTER: Kelley MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7879449 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature