Researchers found that bonding between two people increases their ability to synchronize body movements. In an experiment, participants pointed fingers at each other before and after a cooperative training session. Synchronized finger movements and brain activity between participants increased following the cooperative session, suggesting social interaction enhances brain and body synchronization. The researchers believe this effect could help understand social bonding and may be useful in evaluating compatibility for relationships or partnerships.
Studies, research papers, & other interesting tid bitsBrian Russell
Over the past 2 years I've done a considerable amount of research in the realms of behavioral, cognitive, and social, psychology, as well as product psychology and the psychology of music, and cognitive neuroscience. Many of the studies and research papers I've aggregated have profound business and consumer implications.
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Researchers have identified two types of cells in our brains that are involved in organizing discrete memories based on when they occurred. This finding improves our understanding of how the human brain forms memories and could have implications in memory disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.
We attempted to combine the research areas of joint action and implicit learning to provide an explanation for the underlying mechanisms of mirror neurons in joint tasks. Therefore, a shared SRT task in a joint condition was conducted. Joint effects in implicit learning or processing speed were not found. A shared task representation could lead to confusion of competence, a phenomenon explained by ideomotor theory.
Studies, research papers, & other interesting tid bitsBrian Russell
Over the past 2 years I've done a considerable amount of research in the realms of behavioral, cognitive, and social, psychology, as well as product psychology and the psychology of music, and cognitive neuroscience. Many of the studies and research papers I've aggregated have profound business and consumer implications.
Researchers Discover How the Human Brain Separates, Stores, and Retrieves Mem...RIKICOURSE
Researchers have identified two types of cells in our brains that are involved in organizing discrete memories based on when they occurred. This finding improves our understanding of how the human brain forms memories and could have implications in memory disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.
We attempted to combine the research areas of joint action and implicit learning to provide an explanation for the underlying mechanisms of mirror neurons in joint tasks. Therefore, a shared SRT task in a joint condition was conducted. Joint effects in implicit learning or processing speed were not found. A shared task representation could lead to confusion of competence, a phenomenon explained by ideomotor theory.
A couple of visual impressions could be compared in order to humans’ curiosity for encounters. New research shows that our mind rewards all of us for taking a look at pretty encounters. Chelnokova as well as among the faces of how the participants evaluated. Photo: Svein Harald Milde as well as Guro Løseth.
Power Changes How the Brain Responds to OthersJeremy Hogev.docxChantellPantoja184
Power Changes How the Brain Responds to Others
Jeremy Hogeveen
Wilfrid Laurier University
Michael Inzlicht
University of Toronto Scarborough
Sukhvinder S. Obhi
Wilfrid Laurier University
Power dynamics are a ubiquitous feature of human social life, yet little is known about how power is
implemented in the brain. Motor resonance is the activation of similar brain networks when acting and
when watching someone else act, and is thought to be implemented, in part, by the human mirror system.
We investigated the effects of power on motor resonance during an action observation task. Separate
groups of participants underwent a high-, neutral, or low-power induction priming procedure, prior to
observing the actions of another person. During observation, motor resonance was determined with
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) via measures of motor cortical output. High-power participants
demonstrated lower levels of resonance than low-power participants, suggesting reduced mirroring of
other people in those with power. These differences suggest that decreased motor resonance to others’
actions might be one of the neural mechanisms underlying power-induced asymmetries in processing our
social interaction partners.
Keywords: power, motor resonance, human mirror system, TMS, social cognitive neuroscience
The profound evolution of primate neocortex was influenced by
the computational demands of living in a complex social environ-
ment (Dunbar & Shultz, 2007). For primates, a key factor creating
structure within the social environment is power. In nonhuman
primates, an animal’s power is partly determined by the degree to
which they dominate conspecifics. Those that are able to exert
dominance over others gain greater access to valuable resources
like food and potential mates (Dunbar, 1980; Lewis, 2002; Watts,
2010). In human societies, power similarly creates “dependence
asymmetries,” wherein the powerless depend heavily on the pow-
erful for resources, whereas the powerful enjoy relatively unabated
access to resources (Russell & Fiske, 2010). This asymmetry
results in differences in how the powerful and the powerless
process other individuals. Despite what we know about the effects
of power on social information processing, the majority of the
evidence is indirect, and the mechanisms underlying power’s in-
fluence remain a mystery. To begin to address this issue, we used
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to provide a direct and
online measure of power’s impact on how the brain responds to
observed action.
The Psychological Impact of Power
The psychological literature on power indicates a reliable rela-
tionship between power and information processing style (Ames,
Rose, & Anderson, 2006; Fiske, 1993; Fiske & Dépret, 1996;
Guinote, 2007a, 2007b; Obhi, Swiderski, & Brubacher, 2012;
Smith & Trope, 2006; van Kleef et al., 2008). High-power indi-
viduals are able to ignore peripheral information and focus on task
relevant details, thereby imp.
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This paper introduces an ethology for understanding student behavior and creating interventions to shape
positive social, emotional, and academic performance. Rooted in the principles of applied behavior
analysis and learning theories, the author suggests a proactive perspective to observing and shaping
student behaviors in a post-pandemic era and provides one tool for flipping and reframing a student’s
mindset to promote constructive thinking and positive social behaviors.
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Mirror neurons are believed to be involved in a wide range of social and cognitive processes.
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www.prasadamore.com
A history of optogenetics the development of tools for controlling brain circ...merzak emerzak
Understanding how different kinds of neuron in the brain work together to implement sensations,
feelings, thoughts, and movements, and how deficits in specific kinds of neuron result in brain
diseases, has long been a priority in basic and clinical neuroscience
A couple of visual impressions could be compared in order to humans’ curiosity for encounters. New research shows that our mind rewards all of us for taking a look at pretty encounters. Chelnokova as well as among the faces of how the participants evaluated. Photo: Svein Harald Milde as well as Guro Løseth.
Power Changes How the Brain Responds to OthersJeremy Hogev.docxChantellPantoja184
Power Changes How the Brain Responds to Others
Jeremy Hogeveen
Wilfrid Laurier University
Michael Inzlicht
University of Toronto Scarborough
Sukhvinder S. Obhi
Wilfrid Laurier University
Power dynamics are a ubiquitous feature of human social life, yet little is known about how power is
implemented in the brain. Motor resonance is the activation of similar brain networks when acting and
when watching someone else act, and is thought to be implemented, in part, by the human mirror system.
We investigated the effects of power on motor resonance during an action observation task. Separate
groups of participants underwent a high-, neutral, or low-power induction priming procedure, prior to
observing the actions of another person. During observation, motor resonance was determined with
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) via measures of motor cortical output. High-power participants
demonstrated lower levels of resonance than low-power participants, suggesting reduced mirroring of
other people in those with power. These differences suggest that decreased motor resonance to others’
actions might be one of the neural mechanisms underlying power-induced asymmetries in processing our
social interaction partners.
Keywords: power, motor resonance, human mirror system, TMS, social cognitive neuroscience
The profound evolution of primate neocortex was influenced by
the computational demands of living in a complex social environ-
ment (Dunbar & Shultz, 2007). For primates, a key factor creating
structure within the social environment is power. In nonhuman
primates, an animal’s power is partly determined by the degree to
which they dominate conspecifics. Those that are able to exert
dominance over others gain greater access to valuable resources
like food and potential mates (Dunbar, 1980; Lewis, 2002; Watts,
2010). In human societies, power similarly creates “dependence
asymmetries,” wherein the powerless depend heavily on the pow-
erful for resources, whereas the powerful enjoy relatively unabated
access to resources (Russell & Fiske, 2010). This asymmetry
results in differences in how the powerful and the powerless
process other individuals. Despite what we know about the effects
of power on social information processing, the majority of the
evidence is indirect, and the mechanisms underlying power’s in-
fluence remain a mystery. To begin to address this issue, we used
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to provide a direct and
online measure of power’s impact on how the brain responds to
observed action.
The Psychological Impact of Power
The psychological literature on power indicates a reliable rela-
tionship between power and information processing style (Ames,
Rose, & Anderson, 2006; Fiske, 1993; Fiske & Dépret, 1996;
Guinote, 2007a, 2007b; Obhi, Swiderski, & Brubacher, 2012;
Smith & Trope, 2006; van Kleef et al., 2008). High-power indi-
viduals are able to ignore peripheral information and focus on task
relevant details, thereby imp.
MIRROR, MIRROR, IN MY MIND: AN ETHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SHAPING STUDENT BEHAVIORIJCI JOURNAL
This paper introduces an ethology for understanding student behavior and creating interventions to shape
positive social, emotional, and academic performance. Rooted in the principles of applied behavior
analysis and learning theories, the author suggests a proactive perspective to observing and shaping
student behaviors in a post-pandemic era and provides one tool for flipping and reframing a student’s
mindset to promote constructive thinking and positive social behaviors.
Mirror Neurons - A Key to Understanding Social Behaviour and CognitionThe Sprouts
Mirror neurons are believed to be involved in a wide range of social and cognitive processes.
Prasad Amore is a qualified and experienced Psychologist with extensive experience in different settings, age ranges, and populations. He is a licensed mental health practitioner who provides his services as the Managing Director of Softmind Wellness Pvt. Ltd. in Kerala.
www.prasadamore.com
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feelings, thoughts, and movements, and how deficits in specific kinds of neuron result in brain
diseases, has long been a priority in basic and clinical neuroscience
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CALTECH (US) — Ever noticed how friends end up walking in synch or how an audience
will eventually clap together? Scientists have measured this mysterious “brain-brain
synchrony.”
Although this type of synchronous body movement has been observed widely, its
neurological mechanism and its role in social interactions remain obscure.
Researchers found that body-movement synchronization between two participants
increases following a short session of cooperative training, suggesting that our ability to
synchronize body movements is a measurable indicator of social interaction.
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Read the original study [1]
DOI: 10.1038/srep00959
“Our findings may provide a powerful tool for identifying the neural underpinnings of both
normal social interactions and impaired social interactions, such as the deficits that are
often associated with autism,” says Shinsuke Shimojo, professor of experimental
psychology at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and senior author of the study.
Shimojo, along with former postdoctoral scholar Kyongsik Yun, and Katsumi Watanabe, an
associate professor at the University of Tokyo, presented their work in Scientific Reports
[1] .
For their study, the team evaluated the hypothesis that synchronous body movement is
the basis for more explicit social interaction by measuring the amount of fingertip
movement between two participants who were instructed to extend their arms and point
their index fingers toward one another—much like the famous scene in E.T. between the
alien and Elliott.
They were explicitly instructed to keep their own fingers as stationary as possible while
keeping their eyes open. The researchers simultaneously recorded the neuronal activity of
each participant using electroencephalography, or EEG, recordings. Their finger positions
in space were recorded by a motion-capture system.
The participants repeated the task eight times; the first two rounds were called pre-
training sessions and the last two were post-training sessions. The four sessions in
between were the cooperative training sessions, in which one person—a randomly
chosen leader—made a sequence of large finger movements, and the other participant
was instructed to follow the movements.
In the post-training sessions, finger-movement correlation between the two participants
was significantly higher compared to that in the pre-training sessions. In addition, socially
and sensorimotor-related brain areas were more synchronized between the brains, but
not within the brain, in the post-training sessions.
According to the researchers, this experiment, while simple, is novel in that it allows two
participants to interact subconsciously while the amount of movement that could
potentially disrupt measurement of the neural signal is minimized.
“The most striking outcome of our study is that not only the body-body synchrony but also
the brain-brain synchrony between the two participants increased after a short period of
social interaction,” says Yun. “This may open new vistas to study the brain-brain interface.
It appears that when a cooperative relationship exists, two brains form a loose dynamic
system.”
The team says this information may be potentially useful for romantic or business partner
selection.
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