Brain-to-Brain Neural Synchrony During Social Interactions: A Systematic Review on Hyperscanning Studies
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Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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Department of Clinical Research for Rehabilitation, National Rehabilitation Research Institute, Seoul 01022, Korea
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Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(19), 6669; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10196669
Received: 30 July 2020
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Revised: 8 September 2020
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Accepted: 10 September 2020
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Published: 24 September 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue User Experience for Advanced Human–Computer Interaction)
The aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive review on hyperscanning research (measuring brain activity simultaneously from more than two people interacting) using an explicit systematic method, the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA). Data were searched from IEEE Xplore, PubMed, Engineering Village, Web of Science and Scopus databases. Inclusion criteria were journal articles written in English from 2000 to 19 June 2019. A total of 126 empirical studies were screened out to address three specific questions regarding the neuroimaging method, the application domain, and the experiment paradigm. Results showed that the most used neuroimaging method with hyperscanning was magnetoencephalography/electroencephalography (MEG/EEG; 47%), and the least used neuroimaging method was hyper-transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) (1%). Applications in cognition accounted for almost half the studies (48%), while educational applications accounted for less than 5% of the studies. Applications in decision-making tasks were the second most common (26%), shortly followed by applications in motor synchronization (23%). The findings from this systematic review that were based on documented, transparent and reproducible searches should help build cumulative knowledge and guide future research regarding inter-brain neural synchrony during social interactions, that is, hyperscanning research.
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Keywords:
hyperscanning; electroencephalography (EEG); functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); magnetoencephalography (MEG)
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Nam, C.S.; Choo, S.; Huang, J.; Park, J. Brain-to-Brain Neural Synchrony During Social Interactions: A Systematic Review on Hyperscanning Studies. Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 6669. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10196669
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Nam CS, Choo S, Huang J, Park J. Brain-to-Brain Neural Synchrony During Social Interactions: A Systematic Review on Hyperscanning Studies. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10(19):6669. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10196669
Chicago/Turabian StyleNam, Chang S., Sanghyun Choo, Jiali Huang, and Jiyoung Park. 2020. "Brain-to-Brain Neural Synchrony During Social Interactions: A Systematic Review on Hyperscanning Studies" Applied Sciences 10, no. 19: 6669. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10196669
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