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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2026

Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination.

Edoardo Chidichimo, Andrea I Luppi, Pedro A M Mediano, Victoria Leong, Guillaume Dumas, Andrés Canales-Johnson, Richard A I Bethlehem

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Multi-brain neurofeedback: what are we training for?Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026
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  8. Broadband synergy versus oscillatory redundancy in the visual cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Edoardo ChidichimoDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. edoardo.chidichimo@magd.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1179-9757
Andrea I LuppiDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Pedro A M MedianoDepartment of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1789-5894
Victoria LeongEarly Mental Potential and Wellbeing Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Guillaume DumasCHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Centre, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Andrés Canales-JohnsonDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Richard A I BethlehemDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0714-0685

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human sociality is grounded in the dynamic coordination of individuals as they interact with one another. Indeed, various levels of interpersonal coordination - neural, behavioural, physiological, affective, linguistic - are hallmarks of successful social communication and cooperation. However, describing these complex, interdependent dynamics has been limited by current methodological approaches, owing to a restrictive repertoire of tools and the absence of a unified, standardized methodological framework. Here, we identify information theory - the mathematical theory of communication - as a particularly well-suited conceptual framework to address this shortfall, given its appropriate sensitivity to complex dynamics, including potential nonlinearity and higher-order interactions, and its data-driven, model-agnostic foundations. With deep roots in computational, cognitive and systems neuroscience, the formal introduction of information-theoretic quantities and methods into the study of interpersonal coordination is perhaps overdue. In this Perspective, we advance the case for a unified information-theoretic framework for the field while paving the way for a new generation of empirically testable, theoretically grounded research questions.

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CommunicationCooperative BehaviorInformation TheoryInterpersonal RelationsSocial BehaviorHumans

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