Spatiotemporal Signatures of Surprise Captured by Magnetoencephalography.

ABSTRACT: Surprise and social influence are linked through several neuropsychological mechanisms. By garnering attention, causing arousal, and motivating engagement, surprise provides a context for effective or durable social influence. Attention to a surprising event motivates the formation of an explanation or updating of models, while high arousal experiences due to surprise promote memory formation. They both encourage engagement with the surprising event through efforts aimed at understanding the situation. By affecting the behavior of the individual or a social group via setting an attractive engagement context, surprise plays an important role in shaping personal and social change. Surprise is an outcome of the brain's function in constantly anticipating the future of sensory inputs ba

SUBMITTER: Mousavi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9235820 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature