Abstract
Towards a neuroscience of social interaction.
Highlights
The burgeoning field of social neuroscience has begun to illuminate the complex biological bases of human social cognitive abilities
Whereas for “offline” social cognition, interaction and feedback are merely a way of gathering data about the other person that feeds into processing algorithms “inside” the agent, it has been proposed that in “online” social interaction the knowledge of the other—at least in part—may reside in the interaction dynamics “between” the agents
In a recent paper (Schilbach et al, 2013; see Figure 1), we describe one axis representing detachment versus emotional engagement; a second axis that runs from purely spectatorial setups to setups that allow participants to produce a meaningful change in their environment, to paradigms in which two agents can interact with each other in a dynamic way; and a third axis that contrasts methodologies that look for explanatory variance within a single agent with approaches focusing on explanatory power of a system of multiple agents
Summary
The burgeoning field of social neuroscience has begun to illuminate the complex biological bases of human social cognitive abilities. A growing number of researchers have begun to study social cognition from an interactor’s point of view, based on the assumption that there is something fundamentally different when we are actively engaged with others in real-time social interaction as compared to when we merely observe them.
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