Speaker gaze increases information coupling between infant and adult brains

• Main Authors: Leong, Victoria, Byrne, Elizabeth, Clackson, Kaili, Georgieva, Stanimira, Lam, Sarah, Wass, Sam
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology; Neural Synchronization; Dyadic Interaction
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105461; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48702; http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702493114
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When infants and adults communicate, they exchange social signals of availability and communicative intention such as eye gaze. Previous research indicates that when communication is successful, close temporal dependencies arise between adult speakers’ and listeners’ neural activity. However, it is...