Title
Bidirectional signal exchanges and their mechanisms during joint attention interaction - A hyperscanning fMRI study.
Abstract
Social interactions are essential to our daily life. We tested the hypothesis that social interactions during joint attention (JA) require bidirectional communication, each with a different mechanism. We used a novel multivariate functional connectivity analysis, which enables obtaining directed pathways between four regions at each time-frequency point, with hyper-scanning MRI data of real-time JA interaction. Constructing multiple “4-regional directed pathways” and counting the number of times, regions engaged in feedforward or feedback processes in the ‘sender’ or the ‘receiver brains, we obtained the following. (1) There were more regions in feedforward than in feedback processes (125 versus 99). (2) The right hemisphere was more involved in feedforward (74 versus 33), while the left hemisphere in feedback (66 versus 51). (3) The dmPFC was more engaged in feedforward (73 versus 44) while the TPJ in both (49 versus 45). (4) The dmPFC was more involved in the sending processes (i.e. initiation of feedforward and feedback) while the TPJ in the receiving processes. (5) JA interaction was involved with high MRI frequencies (0.04–0.1 Hz), while continues interactions by low MRI frequencies (0.01–0.04 Hz). (6) Initiation and responding to JA (i.e. IJA and RJA) evolved with composite neural systems: similar systems for pathways that included the dmPFC, vmPFC and the STS, and different systems for pathways that included the TPJ, vmPFC, PCC and the STS. These findings have important consequences in the basic understanding of social interaction and could help in diagnose and follow-up of social impairments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.05.028
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
Joint attention,Hyperscanning,Multivariate analysis,Directed functional connectivity,Bidirectional flow
Social relation,Lateralization of brain function,Joint attention,Communication source,Cognitive psychology,Psychology,Neural system,Bidirectional communication,Right hemisphere,Feed forward
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
198
1053-8119
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gadi Goelman1143.01
Rotem Dan210.36
Gabriela Stößel310.36
Heike Tost4443.97
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg525318.54
Edda Bilek641.17