Social interaction: A cognitive-neurosciences approach
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
Social interaction is the basis of most human activities. Through social interactions people make judgments about their partners social identity, emotional state, attractiveness and trustworthiness. Psychologists convincingly argue that many of these basic social judgements are made automatically rather than as the result of conscious decision. Yet, little is known about the detailed cognitive-neural mechanisms that support the judgments. This project aims to elucidate these mechanisms using the most up-to-date experimental, computational and brain imaging techniques. The three main strands of the project will investigate in turn; (1) the immediate processing of social signals originating from the voice, face and bodily movements; (2) how such signals support the automatic interactive alignment of social behaviours (associated with pupil dilation, blinking, yawning etc.); (3) the mechanisms that underlie joint attention and action. A major goal of the three strands will be to establish the link between the processing of social signals and the formation of key social judgements relating to emotion, trust and desire to affiliate with interacting partners. To support this goal a fourth strand of the project will develop a mathematical model to capture the relationship between social signals arising from multiple sources and social judgements.
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Publications
Bruckert L
(2010)
Vocal attractiveness increases by averaging.
in Current biology : CB
Caldara R
(2010)
Putting Culture Under the 'Spotlight' Reveals Universal Information Use for Face Recognition
in PLoS ONE
Garrod S
(2009)
Joint action, interactive alignment, and dialog.
in Topics in cognitive science
Gross J
(2013)
Speech rhythms and multiplexed oscillatory sensory coding in the human brain.
in PLoS biology
Hasson U
(2012)
Brain-to-brain coupling: a mechanism for creating and sharing a social world.
in Trends in cognitive sciences
Jack RE
(2009)
Cultural confusions show that facial expressions are not universal.
in Current biology : CB
Jack RE
(2012)
Internal representations reveal cultural diversity in expectations of facial expressions of emotion.
in Journal of experimental psychology. General
Jack RE
(2012)
Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal.
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Kelly DJ
(2010)
Culture shapes eye movements for visually homogeneous objects.
in Frontiers in psychology
Kessler K
(2010)
The embodied nature of spatial perspective taking: embodied transformation versus sensorimotor interference.
in Cognition
Kessler K
(2010)
Characteristics of motor resonance predict the pattern of flash-lag effects for biological motion.
in PloS one
Morand SM
(2010)
Looking away from faces: influence of high-level visual processes on saccade programming.
in Journal of vision
Petrini K
(2010)
Audiovisual integration of emotional signals from music improvisation does not depend on temporal correspondence.
in Brain research
Petrini K
(2010)
Expertise with multisensory events eliminates the effect of biological motion rotation on audiovisual synchrony perception.
in Journal of vision
Pickering M
(2009)
Prediction and embodiment in dialogue
in European Journal of Social Psychology
Smith FW
(2009)
Smile through your fear and sadness: transmitting and identifying facial expression signals over a range of viewing distances.
in Psychological science
Van Rijsbergen NJ
(2009)
Dynamics of trimming the content of face representations for categorization in the brain.
in PLoS computational biology
Vizioli L
(2010)
Inverting faces elicits sensitivity to race on the N170 component: a cross-cultural study.
in Journal of vision