EEG frequency tagging evidence of social interaction recognition

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

Previous neuroscience studies have provided important insights into the neural processing of third-party social interaction recognition. Unfortunately, however, the methods they used are limited by a high susceptibility to noise. Electroencephalogram (EEG) frequency tagging is a promising technique to overcome this limitation, as it is known for its high signal-to-noise ratio. So far, EEG frequency tagging has mainly been used with simplistic stimuli (e.g. faces), but more complex stimuli are needed to study social interaction recognition. It therefore remains unknown whether this technique could be exploited to study third-party social interaction recognition. To address this question, we first created and validated a wide variety of stimuli that depict social scenes with and without social interaction, after which we used these stimuli in an EEG frequency tagging experiment. As hypothesized, we found enhanced neural responses to social scenes with social interaction compared to social scenes without social interaction. This effect appeared laterally at occipitoparietal electrodes and strongest over the right hemisphere. Hence, we find that EEG frequency tagging can measure the process of inferring social interaction from varying contextual information. EEG frequency tagging is particularly valuable for research into populations that require a high signal-to-noise ratio like infants, young children and clinical populations.

Original languageEnglish
JournalSocial Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Volume17
Issue number11
Pages (from-to)1044-1053
Number of pages10
ISSN1749-5016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.11.2022
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press.

    Research areas

  • EEG, frequency tagging, social interaction recognition
  • Psychology

Documents

DOI

Recently viewed

Activities

  1. Projektantrag DFG
  2. Remote Sensing of Environment (Fachzeitschrift)
  3. Things Take Their Times: Coordinating Individual and Material Eigenzeiten in Creative Work
  4. Teaching Listening Comprehension in the EFL Classroom: Processes, Materials, Tasks and Tests
  5. Big Data - Von großen Daten zu kleinen Schritten
  6. Einführung in SPSS: Computergestützte Auswertung statistischer Daten
  7. Where are We With? A Dialectic Theory of Innovation
  8. Contemporary Art + Data
  9. Further Creation of Know how in the Opportunity Recognition Process
  10. Swarming. Science Fact and Science Fiction of Collective Intelligence
  11. Fakultät Management und Technologie (Organisation)
  12. Does symbolic representation through class signaling appeal to voters? Evidence from a conjoint experiment
  13. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (Zeitschrift)
  14. Between Path Dependency and Tourism Area Life Cycle: Cultural Assets in the Light of Spa Re-development in East Germany
  15. Can we solve the climate crisis? Contributions from artS, technology and science
  16. Showcasing Data Science Methods Analyzing Post-Retirement Employment Decisions
  17. Detecting Driver’s Emotions: Measurement Applications in the Car
  18. Governing Communities through Music?: Governmentality Insights and Illustrations from Baltimore
  19. Web as Culture - 2009
  20. Multi problem families”, “overburdened mothers”, and where is the child? Physical violence and symbolic power of definition
  21. Effective working hours and wages: the case of downward adjustment via paid absenteeism
  22. Ant Course 2012
  23. Interculturally wired, locally connected: Online collaboration and intercultural learning in a bi-national blended learning project
  24. Deferred Compensation Schemes, Fairness Concerns, and Employment of Older Workers
  25. Integration of a Heat Storage System into an Existing Household
  26. Corruption in Comparative Perspective