Enactive cinema paves way towards understanding complex real-time social interaction in neuroimaging experiments

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Pia eTikka¹  Aline ede Borst¹  Tapio eTakala²  Roberto ePugliese²  Aleksander eVäljamäe³  Niklas eRavaja⁴  Mauri eKaipainen⁵ 

[1] Aalto University School of ARTS;Aalto University School of Science;CIANT - international centre for art and new technologies;School of Business, Aalto University;Södertörn University;University of Graz;University of Helsinki;

关键词: social neuroscience;    Brain-Computer-Interfaces;    enactive cinema;    generative storytelling;    implicit interaction;    real-time fMRI;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnhum.2012.00298

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We outline general theoretical and practical implications of what we promote as enactive cinema for the neuroscientific study of online socio-emotional interaction. In a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) setting, participants are immersed in cinematic experiences that simulate social situations. While viewing, their physiological reactions - including brain responses - are tracked, representing implicit and unconscious experiences of the on-going social situations. These reactions, in turn, are analysed in real-time and fed back to modify the cinematic sequences they are viewing while being scanned. Due to the engaging cinematic content, the proposed setting focuses on living-by in terms of shared psycho-physiological epiphenomena of experience rather than active coping in terms of goal-oriented motor actions. It constitutes a means to parametrically modify stimuli that depict social situations and their broader environmental contexts. As an alternative to studying the variation of brain responses as a function of a priori fixed stimuli, this method can be applied to survey the range of stimuli that evoke similar responses across participants at particular brain regions of interest.

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