title: Does machine-mediated interaction induce inter-brain synchrony?--A hyperscanning study.
abstract: We present a study in which participants were trained in several sessions to control a (comparatively simple) robot via an EEG-/motor imagery-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). In the final (experiment) session pairs of participants were formed and each participant controlled one of two robots in a shared space. EEG data was recorded synchronously from both participants. We performed a joint data analysis on the datasets and found increases of phase-locking in μ- and θ-band. One such phase-locking effect appears to be time-locked to the start of the robotic action.
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hachmeister
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Finke
authors.forename: Helge
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ritter
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D062207:Brain-Computer Interfaces; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D012371:Robotics