Cooperation in lovers: An fNIRS-based hyperscanning study

Yafeng Pan; Xiaojun Cheng; Zhenxin Zhang; Xianchun Li; Yi Hu

doi:10.1002/hbm.23421

Cooperation in lovers: An fNIRS-based hyperscanning study

Yafeng Pan
, Xiaojun Cheng
, Zhenxin Zhang
, Xianchun Li^*
, Yi Hu

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Psychology and Cognitive Science

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Abstract

This study investigated interactive exchange in lovers and the associated interpersonal brain synchronization (IBS) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based hyperscanning. Three types of female-male dyads, lovers, friends, and strangers, performed a cooperation task during which brain activity was recorded in right frontoparietal regions. We measured better cooperative behavior in lover dyads compared with friend and stranger dyads. Lover dyads demonstrated increased IBS in right superior frontal cortex, which also covaried with their task performance. Granger causality analyses in lover dyads revealed stronger directional synchronization from females to males than from males to females, suggesting different roles for females and males during cooperation. Our study refines the theoretical explanation of romantic interaction between lovers. Hum Brain Mapp 38:831–841, 2017.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	831-841
Number of pages	11
Journal	Human Brain Mapping
Volume	38
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23421
State	Published - 1 Feb 2017

Keywords

cooperation
fNIRS
hyperscanning
interpersonal brain synchronization
lovers

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