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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Human communication involves aligning mental representations, including syntax, to foster shared understanding.
  • Syntax is a key differentiator of human language, yet neural underpinnings of syntactic alignment during communication remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether and how communicators share neural representations of syntax during dyadic interactions.
  • To explore the relationship between neural synchronization and communication quality in the context of syntactic alignment.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based hyperscanning to measure brain activity in pairs of communicators.
  • Participants engaged in communication tasks involving sentences with either identical or differing syntactic structures.
  • Analyzed interpersonal neural synchronization (INS) in specific brain regions.

Main Results:

  • Significantly increased INS was observed in the right posterior superior temporal cortex when communicators produced matching syntactic structures.
  • This heightened INS specifically occurred when syntactic structures were the same, compared to when they differed.
  • The degree of INS increase positively correlated with the assessed quality of communication.

Conclusions:

  • The findings provide initial evidence for shared neural representations of syntax between communicating individuals.
  • Neural synchronization in the right posterior superior temporal cortex appears to be a mechanism underlying syntactic alignment in communication.