Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
June 9, 2026
Grace Qiyuan Miao, Ian J. Lieberman, Ashley L. Binnquist et al.
Little is known about the neurocognitive underpinnings of forming social connections. In this study, we tested whether default mode network (DMN) inter-brain synchrony (which prior work has linked to interpersonal alignment, or 'seeing eye-to-eye') predicts feelings of connection during conversations. Seventy pairs of strangers engaged in shallow or deep conversations while brain activity was...
The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition
September 13, 2018
T. Tollefsen, Rick Dale
6 citations
Over past thirty years there has been an increased interest in studying joint action across a number of different disciplines including psychology, sociology, cognitive anthropology, cognitive science, and philosophy. In this chapter we canvas recent philosophical and empirical research on joint action. Along the way we highlight embedded, embodied, extended, and enactive approaches and the...
Advances in Consciousness Research
July 11, 2012
Rick Dale, Deborah P. Tollefsen, Christopher T. Kello
2 citations
We review theories and empirical research on underlying mechanisms of selfhood, awareness, and conscious experience. The mechanisms that have been identified for these phenomena are many and multifarious, lying at many levels of space and time, and complexity and abstractness. Proposals have included the global workspace for conscious information, action and its centrality to self awareness,...
Grace Qiyuan Miao, Ian J. Lieberman, Ashley L. Binnquist et al.
preprint
Abstract Successfully making connections with others is crucial to navigating the social world and general well-being, yet little is known about connection formation and its neurocognitive underpinnings. Increasingly, neuroscientists use interpersonal ‘neural synchrony’ within the default mode network (DMN) to measure when two or more people subjectively experience something in similar ways....