Intra-individual behavioural and neural signatures of audience effects and interactions in a mirror-game paradigm.

ABSTRACT: We often perform actions while observed by others, yet the behavioural and neural signatures of audience effects remain understudied. Performing actions while being observed has been shown to result in more emphasized movements in musicians and dancers, as well as during communicative actions. Here, we investigate the behavioural and neural mechanisms of observed actions in relation to individual actions in isolation and interactive joint actions. Movement kinematics and EEG were recorded in 42 participants (21 pairs) during a mirror-game paradigm, while participants produced improvised movements alone, while observed by a partner, or by synchronizing movements with the partner. Participants produced largest movements when being observed, and observed actors and dyads in interaction produc

SUBMITTER: Zimmermann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8847899 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature