{"id":1338,"date":"2016-12-15T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T13:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2018-06-16T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T16:18:19","slug":"new-paper-out-in-scientific-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"New paper published in Scientific Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Oxytocin improves synchronisation in leader-follower interaction&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientific Reports, dec. 2008<br \/>\nLine Gebauer, Maria Witek, Niels Christian Hansen, Jana Thomas, Ivana Konvalinka, Peter Vuust<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The neuropeptide oxytocin has been shown to affect social interaction. Meanwhile, the underlying mechanism remains highly debated. Using an interpersonal finger-tapping paradigm, we investigated whether oxytocin affects the ability to synchronise with and adapt to the behaviour of others. Dyads received either oxytocin or a non-active placebo, intranasally. We show that in conditions where one dyad-member was tapping to another unresponsive dyad member \u2013 i.e. one was following another who was leading\/self-pacing \u2013 dyads given oxytocin were more synchronised than dyads given placebo. However, there was no effect when following a regular metronome or when both tappers were mutually adapting to each other. Furthermore, relative to their self-paced tapping partners, oxytocin followers were less variable than placebo followers. Our data suggests that oxytocin improves synchronisation to an unresponsive partner\u2019s behaviour through a reduction in tapping-variability. Hence, oxytocinc may facilitate social interaction by enhancing sensorimotor predictions supporting interpersonal synchronisation. The study thus provides novel perspectives on how neurobiological processes relate to socio-psychological behaviour and contributes to the growing evidence that synchronisation and prediction are central to social cognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Oxytocin improves synchronisation in leader-follower interaction&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/?p=1338\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New paper published in Scientific Reports<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petervuust.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}