H2020Индивидуална стипендия2016–2020

MUSIC · How the brain creates Mutual Understanding during Social InteraCtion

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-12-31 → 2020-07-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 260 930 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF-GF

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Накратко на български

Споделеното когнитивно пространство между хората позволява разбирането на гъвкави сигнали, като жестове и думи, по време на общуване. Разбирането на този механизъм помага при диагностицирането и лечението на разстройства в социалното взаимодействие, като например аутизма.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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How the brain creates Mutual Understanding during Social InteraCtion

Intuitively, humans understand one another because they share the same set of communicative signals such as words and gestures. However, that intuition neglects the extreme flexibility with which we employ our communicative signals in everyday social interaction. Neither can it account for our evolutionarily anomalous ability to instantly reach joint meaning of new signals in the first place. By combining neuroscience and psychiatry with controlled studies of live human social interaction, this research project found evidence for the notion that human communicators share not signals but a fleeting cognitive space. This shared cognitive space provides context for selecting and interpreting communicative signals that can be mutually understood. The shared cognitive space is jointly coordinated and updated during social interaction, and that coordinated updating is altered in individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The findings characterize a fundamental and evolutionarily unique ability of our species, and open the way for understanding and treating disorders of human social interaction.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

How can we understand one another? Our everyday conversations appear to revolve around our linguistic abilities. But creating mutual understanding involves more than formulating grammatically correct sentences. Recently, cognitive science has shown that mutual understanding relies on shared knowledge and beliefs, conceptual knowledge that is continuously adjusted as we interact. Yet, social neuroscience has mainly focused on how individuals respond to social stimuli without a social context. Consequently, the neural mechanism that underlies our ability to create mutual understanding with another person remains largely elusive. The proposed project addresses this interdisciplinary gap, testing the hypothesis that creating mutual understanding requires a neural mechanism that supports a continuous adjustment of conceptual knowledge. That hypothesis will be tested by sampling and interfering with neuronal activity in humans during live social interaction, at the University of California. First, I will investigate the neuronal implementation of mutual understanding through intracranial recordings from the human brain. The exquisite spatiotemporal precision of these recordings offers the unprecedented possibility to characterize how conceptual knowledge is mechanistically adjusted during social interaction. Second, I will investigate frontotemporal dementia, a neurological disorder known to disrupt access to conceptual knowledge. This unfortunate experiment of nature offers the unique opportunity to understand how progressive alteration in brain tissue and connectivity affects the ability to create mutual understanding. These studies will offer a neural- and system-level mechanism of human mutual understanding, which I will translate into testable accounts of communicative alterations in a range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, during the return phase at the Donders Institute and King’s College London.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NijmegenКоординаторНидерландия
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA · OaklandСъединени щати