Abstract

Humans are innately social creatures, but cognitive neuroscience, traditionally focused on individual brains, is just beginning to investigate social cognition through the lens of realistic interpersonal interaction. However, quantitative investigation of the dynamical sensorimotor communication among interacting individuals in goal-directed ecological tasks is particularly challenging. The presentation will start from basic neurophysiological studies describing the basic mechanisms of inter-individual sensorimotor communication. I will then move to our current attempts to quantify non-verbal sensorimotor information flow within groups of interacting participants.