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“Stay Tuned”: Inter-Individual Neural Synchronization During Mutual Gaze and Joint Attention

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2010
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Title
“Stay Tuned”: Inter-Individual Neural Synchronization During Mutual Gaze and Joint Attention
Published in
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2010
DOI 10.3389/fnint.2010.00127
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Authors

Daisuke N. Saito, Hiroki C. Tanabe, Keise Izuma, Masamichi J. Hayashi, Yusuke Morito, Hidetsugu Komeda, Hitoshi Uchiyama, Hirotaka Kosaka, Hidehiko Okazawa, Yasuhisa Fujibayashi, Norihiro Sadato

Abstract

Eye contact provides a communicative link between humans, prompting joint attention. As spontaneous brain activity might have an important role in the coordination of neuronal processing within the brain, their inter-subject synchronization might occur during eye contact. To test this, we conducted simultaneous functional MRI in pairs of adults. Eye contact was maintained at baseline while the subjects engaged in real-time gaze exchange in a joint attention task. Averted gaze activated the bilateral occipital pole extending to the right posterior superior temporal sulcus, the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex, and the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus. Following a partner's gaze toward an object activated the left intraparietal sulcus. After all the task-related effects were modeled out, inter-individual correlation analysis of residual time-courses was performed. Paired subjects showed more prominent correlations than non-paired subjects in the right inferior frontal gyrus, suggesting that this region is involved in sharing intention during eye contact that provides the context for joint attention.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Finland 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 297 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 69 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 20%
Student > Master 50 16%
Student > Bachelor 26 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 5%
Other 47 15%
Unknown 40 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 127 41%
Neuroscience 41 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 5%
Engineering 12 4%
Other 34 11%
Unknown 56 18%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 March 2022.
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#3
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