ArticleBrain sciences2022
It Takes Two: Interpersonal Neural Synchrony Is Increased after Musical Interaction.
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- Healing potential of art therapy: a narrative review of neuro-psycho-cultural mechanisms in mental health.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Interpersonal neural synchrony and mental disorders: unlocking potential pathways for clinical interventions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Inter-brain coupling tracks emotional co-regulation.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Inducing Interpersonal Closeness: Effects on Inter-Brain Synchrony and Collaborative Performance.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Temporal Predictions in Music and Language: The Case of Autism Spectrum Disorder.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Environmental effects on inter-brain coupling: a systematic review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Post-interaction neuroplasticity of inter-brain networks underlies the development of social relationship.iScience · 2024Article
- Intra- and inter-brain coupling and activity dynamics during improvisational music therapy with a person with dementia: an explorative EEG-hyperscanning single case study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Physiological synchrony and shared flow state in Javanese gamelan: positively associated while improvising, but not for traditional performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Music and Brain Circuitry: Strategies for Strengthening Evidence-Based Research for Music-Based Interventions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Review
- The Co-Construction of an Elegant Ending-Polyphonic Musical Intervention in Palliative Care: A Case Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Inter-brain plasticity as a biological mechanism of change in psychotherapy: A review and integrative model.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Music's deeply interpersonal nature suggests that music-derived neuroplasticity relates to interpersonal temporal dynamics, or synchrony. Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) has been found to correlate with increased behavioral synchrony during social interactions and may represent mechanisms that support them. As social interactions often do not have clearly delineated boundaries, and many start and stop intermittently, we hypothesize that a neural signature of INS may be detectable following an interaction. The present study aimed to investigate this hypothesis using a pre-post paradigm, measuring interbrain phase coherence before and after a cooperative dyadic musical interaction. Ten dyads underwent synchronous electroencephalographic (EEG) recording during silent, non-interactive periods before and after a musical interaction in the form of a cooperative tapping game. Significant post-interaction increases in delta band INS were found in the post-condition and were positively correlated with the duration of the preceding interaction. These findings suggest a mechanism by which social interaction may be efficiently continued after interruption and hold the potential for measuring neuroplastic adaption in longitudinal studies. These findings also support the idea that INS during social interaction represents active mechanisms for maintaining synchrony rather than mere parallel processing of stimuli and motor activity.
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