Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations
Silvia Formica, Marcel Brass · 2024
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Description
Silvia Formica and Marcel Brass published this study in 2024. It asks how the brain plans actions when two people act together. Joint action needs partners to move in sync without tripping over each other's different parts. One theory says the pair forms a single shared motor plan. The team recorded brain waves from thirty-six people drawing shapes beside a virtual partner. In one setting the pair had to synchronize. In the other, each drew alone in parallel.
Brain patterns before movement showed the partner's coming action woven into the drawer's own plan, but only in the joint setting. In parallel play, the two plans stayed separate. The authors read this as direct support for an integrated plan. Coordination, it seems, is built by merging representations, not just by watching each other closely.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Silvia Formica, Marcel Brass |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |