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Research paper thumbnail of Brain-to-Brain Synchrony during Naturalistic Social Interactions

Scientific Reports, Dec 6, 2017

The evolution of humans as a highly social species tuned the brain to the social world; yet the m... more The evolution of humans as a highly social species tuned the brain to the social world; yet the mechanisms by which humans coordinate their brain response online during social interactions remain unclear. Using hyperscanning EEG recordings, we measured brain-to-brain synchrony in 104 adults during a male-female naturalistic social interaction, comparing romantic couples and strangers. Neural synchrony was found for couples, but not for strangers, localized to temporal-parietal structures and expressed in gamma rhythms. Brain coordination was not found during a three-minute rest, pinpointing neural synchrony to social interactions among affiliative partners. Brain-to-brain synchrony was linked with behavioral synchrony. Among couples, neural synchrony was anchored in moments of social gaze and positive affect, whereas among strangers, longer durations of social gaze and positive affect correlated with greater neural synchrony. Brain-to-brain synchrony was unrelated to episodes of speech/no-speech or general content of conversation. Our findings link brain-to-brain synchrony to the degree of social connectedness among interacting partners, ground neural synchrony in key nonverbal social behaviors, and highlight the role of human attachment in providing a template for two-brain coordination.

Research paper thumbnail of Working Through the Trauma of the Holocaust in European Cinema of the 2000s (Hungary, Poland and Austria)

This paper seeks to examine contemporary European cinema by exploring views of the post-Holocaust... more This paper seeks to examine contemporary European cinema by exploring views of the post-Holocaust period (1945-1965) during the 2010s. These films revisit their respective nation's traumatic past seventy years after the end of World War II and offer a new perspective on the modes of memory and ways of processing the past. To raise questions about common mod of Holocaust remembrance and differences in the ways Hungarian, Polish, and Austrian films refer to their nations' pasts, this paper examines representations of Holocaust trauma in three major feature films: "1945" (Ferenc Török, Hungary, 2017), "Ida" (Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland, 2013), and "Murer-Anatomy of a Trial" (Christian Frosch, Austria, 2018). These films are part of a slow, ambiguous process of acknowledging the past that entails a struggle over victimhood and the issue of collaboration.

Research paper thumbnail of Working Through the Trauma of the Holocaust in European Cinema of the 2000s (Hungary, Poland and Austria)

HSSIS-19 Sept. 4-5, 2019 Bordeaux (France), 2019

Seventy years after the end of WWII, European cinema deals with the memory of the Holocaust in wa... more Seventy years after the end of WWII, European cinema deals with the memory of the Holocaust in ways that suggest strong ethical implications regarding the current 'Europeanization' of the Holocaust. Examining the representations of the trauma of the Holocaust in three prominent feature films that describe the post-Holocaust period (1945-65) – ( 1945 [Ferenc Torok, Hungary, 2017], Ida [Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland, 2013] and “Murer - Anatomy Of a Trial” [Christian Frosch, Austria, 2018] – raises questions concerning the differences in how contemporary Hungarian, Polish and Austrian cinemas address their national pasts. The three films are part of very slow and ambiguous processes of acknowledging the past that entail a struggle over victimhood as well as over the issue of collaboration. In light of the inclination towards the right in contemporary Europe, along with the refugee crisis, these films' representation of “working through” processes reflect the complexity of both ...

Research paper thumbnail of Brain-to-Brain Synchrony during Naturalistic Social Interactions

Scientific Reports, Dec 6, 2017

The evolution of humans as a highly social species tuned the brain to the social world; yet the m... more The evolution of humans as a highly social species tuned the brain to the social world; yet the mechanisms by which humans coordinate their brain response online during social interactions remain unclear. Using hyperscanning EEG recordings, we measured brain-to-brain synchrony in 104 adults during a male-female naturalistic social interaction, comparing romantic couples and strangers. Neural synchrony was found for couples, but not for strangers, localized to temporal-parietal structures and expressed in gamma rhythms. Brain coordination was not found during a three-minute rest, pinpointing neural synchrony to social interactions among affiliative partners. Brain-to-brain synchrony was linked with behavioral synchrony. Among couples, neural synchrony was anchored in moments of social gaze and positive affect, whereas among strangers, longer durations of social gaze and positive affect correlated with greater neural synchrony. Brain-to-brain synchrony was unrelated to episodes of speech/no-speech or general content of conversation. Our findings link brain-to-brain synchrony to the degree of social connectedness among interacting partners, ground neural synchrony in key nonverbal social behaviors, and highlight the role of human attachment in providing a template for two-brain coordination.

Research paper thumbnail of Working Through the Trauma of the Holocaust in European Cinema of the 2000s (Hungary, Poland and Austria)

This paper seeks to examine contemporary European cinema by exploring views of the post-Holocaust... more This paper seeks to examine contemporary European cinema by exploring views of the post-Holocaust period (1945-1965) during the 2010s. These films revisit their respective nation's traumatic past seventy years after the end of World War II and offer a new perspective on the modes of memory and ways of processing the past. To raise questions about common mod of Holocaust remembrance and differences in the ways Hungarian, Polish, and Austrian films refer to their nations' pasts, this paper examines representations of Holocaust trauma in three major feature films: "1945" (Ferenc Török, Hungary, 2017), "Ida" (Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland, 2013), and "Murer-Anatomy of a Trial" (Christian Frosch, Austria, 2018). These films are part of a slow, ambiguous process of acknowledging the past that entails a struggle over victimhood and the issue of collaboration.

Research paper thumbnail of Working Through the Trauma of the Holocaust in European Cinema of the 2000s (Hungary, Poland and Austria)

HSSIS-19 Sept. 4-5, 2019 Bordeaux (France), 2019

Seventy years after the end of WWII, European cinema deals with the memory of the Holocaust in wa... more Seventy years after the end of WWII, European cinema deals with the memory of the Holocaust in ways that suggest strong ethical implications regarding the current 'Europeanization' of the Holocaust. Examining the representations of the trauma of the Holocaust in three prominent feature films that describe the post-Holocaust period (1945-65) – ( 1945 [Ferenc Torok, Hungary, 2017], Ida [Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland, 2013] and “Murer - Anatomy Of a Trial” [Christian Frosch, Austria, 2018] – raises questions concerning the differences in how contemporary Hungarian, Polish and Austrian cinemas address their national pasts. The three films are part of very slow and ambiguous processes of acknowledging the past that entail a struggle over victimhood as well as over the issue of collaboration. In light of the inclination towards the right in contemporary Europe, along with the refugee crisis, these films' representation of “working through” processes reflect the complexity of both ...