2018
A cross-brain neural mechanism for human-to-human verbal communication
Hirsch J, Noah J, Zhang X, Dravida S, Ono Y. A cross-brain neural mechanism for human-to-human verbal communication. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience 2018, 13: 907-920. PMID: 30137601, PMCID: PMC6137318, DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsy070.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSuperior temporal gyrusInteractive brain hypothesisNeural mechanismsSocial interactionBrain hypothesisCanonical language areasHuman verbal communicationNon-interactive conditionDynamic social interactionsObject NamingSocial cuesInterpersonal informationBrain substratesDescription taskTemporal gyrusBroca's areaLanguage areasWernicke's areaNeural activitySubcentral areaVerbal communicationNatural settingsTheoretical frameworkGeneral theoretical frameworkDeoxyhemoglobin signal
2017
Distributed Neural Activity Patterns during Human-to-Human Competition
Piva M, Zhang X, Noah JA, Chang SWC, Hirsch J. Distributed Neural Activity Patterns during Human-to-Human Competition. Frontiers In Human Neuroscience 2017, 11: 571. PMID: 29218005, PMCID: PMC5703701, DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00571.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTemporal-parietal junctionAngular gyrusFusiform gyrusSupramarginal gyrusSocial cognitionSubcentral areaFunctional connectivityBilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortexHuman social cognitionSocial cognition paradigmPrevious fMRI findingsFace interactionHuman social behaviorDorsolateral prefrontal cortexNeural activity patternsConventional neuroimaging techniquesBrain functional connectivitySomatosensory cortexCognition paradigmNeural coherenceRelevant cuesFMRI findingsLeft DLPFCNeural mechanismsFrontopolar areaFrontal temporal and parietal systems synchronize within and across brains during live eye-to-eye contact
Hirsch J, Zhang X, Noah JA, Ono Y. Frontal temporal and parietal systems synchronize within and across brains during live eye-to-eye contact. NeuroImage 2017, 157: 314-330. PMID: 28619652, PMCID: PMC5863547, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.018.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEye contactInterpersonal interactionsSupplementary motor cortexSpecificity hypothesisFrontal clusterSubcentral areaLeft superior temporal gyrusInteractive brain hypothesisTwo-person neuroscienceLimited head motionSuperior temporal gyrusTwo-person interactionsConventional neuroimaging methodsNeural correlatesSocial cuesNeural processesBrain hypothesisNeural mechanismsNeural responsesParietal systemSupramarginal gyrusMutual gazeSynchrony hypothesisLanguage functionTemporal gyrus