Enhanced connectivity during others' presence: Unveiling social facilitation across brain scales via probabilistic inference
Amirhossein Esmaeili, Meysam Hashemi, Frank Zaal, Viktor Jirsa, Driss Boussaoud · FENS Forum 2024
Aims: Social cognition hinges on the fundamental capability to perceive the presence of others. Research indicates that the mere presence of conspecifics can enhance task performance, particularly in simpler tasks, and is closely associated with the activity of context-dependent neural subpopulations. While attentional modulation (attentional-conflict theory) has long been posited as the primary mechanism driving social facilitation, the literature on the neurobiological underpinnings of this modulation remains scant at best. Understanding these mechanisms could yield critical insights into so
ePoster · Neuroscience