Enactive cinema paves way for understanding complex real-time social interaction in neuroimaging experiments

We outline general theoretical and practical implications of what we promote as enactive cinema for the neuroscientific study of online socio-emotional interaction. In a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) setting, participants are immersed in cinematic experiences that simulat...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Frontiers in human neuroscience 2012-11, Vol.6, p.298-298
Main Authors: Tikka, Pia, Väljamäe, Aleksander, de Borst, Aline W, Pugliese, Roberto, Ravaja, Niklas, Kaipainen, Mauri, Takala, Tapio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Annat forskningsområde
Art galleries & museums
Brain mapping
cinema
Coffee
Experiments
fMRI
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Information technology
media technology
Medical imaging
Neuroimaging
Neuroscience
Neurosciences
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Other research area
Physiology
Scanners
Simulation
Social interaction
Validity
Verbal communication
Virtual reality
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:We outline general theoretical and practical implications of what we promote as enactive cinema for the neuroscientific study of online socio-emotional interaction. In a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) setting, participants are immersed in cinematic experiences that simulate social situations. While viewing, their physiological reactions-including brain responses-are tracked, representing implicit and unconscious experiences of the on-going social situations. These reactions, in turn, are analyzed in real-time and fed back to modify the cinematic sequences they are viewing while being scanned. Due to the engaging cinematic content, the proposed setting focuses on living-by in terms of shared psycho-physiological epiphenomena of experience rather than active coping in terms of goal-oriented motor actions. It constitutes a means to parametrically modify stimuli that depict social situations and their broader environmental contexts. As an alternative to studying the variation of brain responses as a function of a priori fixed stimuli, this method can be applied to survey the range of stimuli that evoke similar responses across participants at particular brain regions of interest.
ISSN:1662-5161
1662-5161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00298