ReviewSocial and personality psychology compass2022
The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Together we sync: a systematic qualitative and quantitative review of fMRI hyperscanning studies.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Finding agreement: Functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning reveals that mental state space exploration facilitates opinion alignment.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2026Article
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- Mapping EEG Metrics to Human Affective and Cognitive Models: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review from a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- An fMRI hyperscanning dataset on cooperation and competition during strategic interactions.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Navigating the complex behavioral landscape of children in foster care and adopted families.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2025Article
- Linguistic coupling between neural systems for speech production and comprehension during real-time dyadic conversations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Neural hyperscanning in caregiver-child dyads: A paradigm for studying the long-term effects of facilitated vs. disrupted attention on working memory and executive functioning in young children.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- It takes a village: A multi-brain approach to studying multigenerational family communication.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- From behavioral synchrony to language and beyond.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Review
- Having a chat and then watching a movie: how social interaction synchronises our brains during co-watching.Oxford open neuroscience · 2024Article
- Friend or foe: classifying collaborative interactions using fNIRS.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2023Article
- The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research.Social and personality psychology compass · 2022Review
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Abstract
Social neuroscience combines tools and perspectives from social psychology and neuroscience to understand how people interact with their social world. Here we discuss a relatively new method-hyperscanning-to study real-time, interactive social interactions using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We highlight three contributions that fMRI hyperscanning makes to the study of the social mind: (1) Naturalism: it shifts the focus from tightly-controlled stimuli to more naturalistic social interactions; (2) Multi-person Dynamics: it shifts the focus from individuals as the unit of analysis to dyads and groups; and (3) Neural Resolution: fMRI hyperscanning captures high-resolution neural patterns and dynamics across the whole brain, unlike other neuroimaging hyperscanning methods (e.g., electroencephalogram, functional near-infrared spectroscopy). Finally, we describe the practical considerations and challenges that fMRI hyperscanning researchers must navigate. We hope researchers will harness this powerful new paradigm to address pressing questions in today's society.
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