
Artur Czeszumski
Cognitive Social Neuroscientist
Neurobiopsychology Research Group, Osnabrück University.
Emotion Regulation Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Bio
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, and Clinical Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I use different methods like EEG, Eye-tracking, Psychophysics, Robotics, and Virtual reality to study human behavior and its underlying neural basis. I am mostly interested in the social aspect of the human mind, and I am planning to explore it with experimental and computational methods throughout my career.
Latest Publication
Cooperative behavior evokes inter-brain synchrony in the prefrontal and temporoparietal cortex: A systematic review and meta-analysis of fNIRS hyperscanning studies
Single-brain neuroimaging studies have shown that human cooperation is associated with neural activity in frontal and temporoparietal regions. However, it remains unclear whether single-brain studies are informative about cooperation in real life, where people interact dynamically. Such dynamic interactions have become the focus of inter-brain studies. An advantageous technique in this regard is functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) because it is less susceptible to movement artifacts than more conventional techniques like EEG or fMRI. We conducted a systematic review and the first quantitative meta-analysis of fNIRS hyperscanning of cooperation, based on thirteen studies with 890 participants. Overall, the meta-analysis revealed evidence of statistically significant inter-brain synchrony while people were cooperating, with large overall effect sizes in both frontal and temporoparietal areas. All thirteen studies observed significant inter-brain synchrony in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), suggesting that this region is particularly relevant for cooperative behavior. The consistency in these findings is unlikely to be due to task-related activations, given that the relevant studies used diverse cooperation tasks. Together, the present findings support the importance of inter-brain synchronization of frontal and temporoparietal regions in interpersonal cooperation. Moreover, the present article highlights the usefulness of meta-analyses as a tool for discerning patterns in inter-brain dynamics.
