ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Tuning in to real-time social interactions in macaques.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- It takes time to synchronize: the emergence of dyadic heart-rate synchrony during music therapy in neurorehabilitation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Physiological Entrainment: A Key Mind-Body Mechanism for Cognitive, Motor and Affective Functioning, and Well-Being.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- The big mixup: Neural representation during natural modes of primate visual behavior.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Virtual social grooming in macaques and its psychophysiological effects.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Movement synchronization between individuals has been implicated in reinforcing their cohesion. How might such interindividual motor entrainment be controlled by the social brain? The answer remains elusive owing largely to the lack of suitable animal models in which direct neural recordings are available. Here, we show that macaque monkeys exhibit social motor entrainment without human prompting. We found that repetitive arm movements for horizontal bar sliding were phase coherent between two monkeys. The nature of motor entrainment was specific to animal pairs, consistent across days, dependent on visual inputs, and affected by social hierarchy. Notably, the entrainment was diminished when paired with prerecorded movies of a monkey making the same movements or bar motion alone. These findings demonstrate that motor entrainment is facilitated by real-time social exchanges, providing a behavioral platform to study the neural basis of potentially evolutionarily conserved mechanisms that support group cohesion.
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