Enactive cinema paves way for understanding complex real-time social interaction in neuroimaging experiments
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2012
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Volume 6, pp. 1-6
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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 analyzed 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.Description
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enactive cinema, real-time fMRI, neurofeedback, social neuroscience, generative storytelling, implicit interaction, Brain Computer Interfaces
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Tikka, P, Väljamäe, A, de Borst, A, Pugliese, R, Ravaja, N, Kaipainen, M & Takala, T 2012, ' Enactive cinema paves way for understanding complex real-time social interaction in neuroimaging experiments ', Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 6, 298, pp. 1-6 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00298