title: Brain activities during synchronized tapping task.
abstract: This study aims to investigate how people process information about other people to determine a response during human-to-human cooperative work. As a preliminary study, the mechanism of cooperative work was examined using interaction between a machine and a human. This machine was designed to have an "other person" model that simulates an emotional model of another person. The task performed in the experiment was a synchronized tapping task. Two models were prepared for this experiment, a simple model that does not employ the other person model and a synchronized model that employs the other person model. Subjects performed cooperative work with these machines. During the experiment, brain activities were measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. It was observed that the left inferior frontal gyrus was activated more with the synchronized model than the simple model.
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hiroyasu
authors.forename: Akiho
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.lastname: Mao Gto
authors.forename: Hisatake
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yokouchi
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009482:Neurophysiology / Q000379:methods; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D033281:Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation; D019265:Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult