It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see
Henry David Thoreau
It is clear that the filters through which we see the world – our beliefs, our emotions, our knowledge – shape our perception, behavior and interaction with other people.
Our lab is interested in studying mechanisms underlying shared and divergent understanding of real-life situations during real-life interactions.
Specifically, we are interested in Interpersonal Synchrony as a mechanism supporting shared understanding and affective response.
We do so by…
Facial expressions analysis
We conduct behavioral experiments to study interpersonal synchrony in facial expressions.
Physiological Synchrony
We use physiological measures such as HRV and Eye movements.
Shared Language
We conduct experiments to reveal people’s tendency to synchronize in language lexicons and communication features.
fMRI
We use complex stimuli such as movies and stories (that includes the richness of events occurring in daily-life) while measuring the brain response in the MRI scanner
fNIRS
We measure the brain response of two (or more) individuals while they interact using fNIRS