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Title | ||
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A Comparative Study On Inter-Brain Synchrony In Real And Virtual Environments Using Hyperscanning |
Abstract | ||
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Researchers have employed hyperscanning, a technique used to simultaneously record neural activity from multiple participants, in real-world collaborations. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study that has used hyperscanning in Virtual Reality (VR). The aims of this study were; firstly, to replicate results of inter-brain synchrony reported in existing literature for a real world task and secondly, to explore whether the inter-brain synchrony could be elicited in a Virtual Environment (VE). This paper reports on three pilot-studies in two different settings (real-world and VR). Paired participants performed two sessions of a finger-pointing exercise separated by a finger-tracking exercise during which their neural activity was simultaneously recorded by electroencephalography (EEG) hardware. By using Phase Locking Value (PLV) analysis, VR was found to induce similar inter-brain synchrony as seen in the real-world. Further, it was observed that the finger-pointing exercise shared the same neurally activated area in both the real-world and VR. Based on these results, we infer that VR can be used to enhance inter-brain synchrony in collaborative tasks carried out in a VE. In particular, we have been able to demonstrate that changing visual perspective in VR is capable of eliciting inter-brain synchrony. This demonstrates that VR could be an exciting platform to explore the phenomena of inter-brain synchrony further and provide a deeper understanding of the neuroscience of human communication. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2021 | 10.1016/j.cag.2020.10.003 | COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS-UK |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Hyperscanning, Virtual Reality, Brain synchronization, Social neuroscience, Remote collaboration, Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) | Journal | 94 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
0097-8493 | 3 | 0.54 |
References | Authors | |
22 | 11 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ihshan Gumilar | 1 | 4 | 2.28 |
| Ekansh Sareen | 2 | 3 | 0.88 |
| Reed Bell | 3 | 3 | 0.54 |
| Augustus Stone | 4 | 3 | 0.54 |
| Ashkan F. Hayati | 5 | 9 | 1.99 |
| Jingwen Mao | 6 | 3 | 0.54 |
| Amit Barde | 7 | 4 | 2.24 |
| Anubha Gupta | 8 | 44 | 19.52 |
| Arindam Dey | 9 | 205 | 23.43 |
| Gun Lee | 10 | 543 | 56.29 |
| Mark Billinghurst | 11 | 5357 | 542.78 |