New publication on an ecological study protocol for multimodal investigation of the neurophysiological underpinnings of dyadic joint action

Studies investigating the neurophysiological underpinnings of joint action through the synchronous acquisition of brain activity, heart activity, muscle activity, respiration and kinematic data from two individuals engaged in ecologic and naturalistic joint actions are still lacking due to difficulties encountered. Specifically, minimizing artifacts, synchronizing multiple devices, and defining suitable study protocols involving gross body movements and involving face-to-face real-time and real-space coordinated action are extremely demanding requirements. We designed a novel multimodal experimental setup and a dyadic study protocol for a cooperative and competitive table tennis game. Our proposed protocol can advance the understanding of the neurophysiological mechanisms sustaining daily life joint actions and could help defining systems to predict cooperative or competitive behaviors before being overtly expressed, particularly useful in real-life contexts where social behavior is a main feature.

Tamburro, G.; Fiedler, P.; De Fano, A.; Raeisi, K.; Khazaei, M.; Vaquero, L.; Bruña, R.; Oppermann, H.; Bertollo, M.; Filho, E.; Zappasodi, F.; Comani, S.:

An ecological study protocol for the multimodal investigation of the neurophysiological underpinnings of dyadic joint action. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 17, (2023)

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1305331

Contact: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Patrique Fiedler