ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2020
Affiliative bonding between teachers and students through interpersonal synchronisation in brain activity.
Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The application of fNIRS in studies on occupational workload: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Interpersonal neural synchrony and mental disorders: unlocking potential pathways for clinical interventions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Recent Trends in Non-invasive Neural Recording Based Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Analysis on Multidisciplinary Human Interactions for Understanding Brain Dynamics: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Interpersonal Neural Synchronization Predicting Learning Outcomes From Teaching-Learning Interaction: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Promoting Social Connectedness Through Interbrain Neurofeedback.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Trial
- Inter-brain coupling tracks emotional co-regulation.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- A shift in brain functional systems during mother-child neural synchrony marks children's cognitive development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Automated classification of conversation valence and arousal using autonomic nervous system responses.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- From Imagination to Immersion: The Impact of Augmented Reality Instruction on Musical Emotion Processing: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Impact of the Traditional Lecture Teaching Method and Dalcroze's Body Rhythmic Teaching Method on the Teaching of Emotion in Music-A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Bidirectional information flow in cooperative learning reflects emergent leadership.Communications biology · 2025Article
- The impact of teachers' autonomy support on students' academic performance from the perspective of hyperscanning: the mediating role of autonomy need satisfaction.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Applying interpersonal neuroscience for understanding classroom learning in students with ADHD.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Estimating the valence and arousal of dyadic conversations using autonomic nervous system responses and regression algorithms.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2025Article
- The spread of mind: psychological contagion in theory and critique.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Abstractness and social interaction through a new lens: the potentialities of hyperscanning in naturalistic settings.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Structured interaction between teacher and student in the flipped classroom enhances learning and interbrain synchrony.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Disrupted Human-Dog Interbrain Neural Coupling in Autism-Associated Shank3 Mutant Dogs.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Regression of Multiple Conversation Aspects using Dyadic Physiological Measurements.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
13 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Human beings organise socially. Theories have posited that interpersonal neural synchronisation might underlie the creation of affiliative bonds. Previous studies tested this hypothesis mainly during a social interaction, making it difficult to determine whether the identified synchronisation is associated with affiliative bonding or with social interaction. This study addressed this issue by focusing on the teacher-student relationship in the resting state both before and after a teaching period. Brain activity was simultaneously measured in both individuals using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. The results showed a significant increase in brain synchronisation at the right sensorimotor cortex between the teacher and student in the resting state after, but not before, the teaching period. Moreover, the synchronisation increased only after a turn-taking mode of teaching but not after a lecturing or video mode of teaching. A chain mediation analysis showed that brain synchronisation during teaching partially mediated the relationship between the brain synchronisation increase in the resting state and strength of the affiliative bond. Finally, both role assignment and social interaction were found to be required for affiliative bonding. Together, these results support the hypothesis that interpersonal synchronisation in brain activity underlies affiliative bonding and that social interaction mechanically mediates the bonding process.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.