Increases in brain activity during social competition predict decreases in working memory performance and later recall

DiMenichi, Brynne C.; Tricomi, Elizabeth

doi:10.1002/hbm.23396

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“…These results are consistent with previous findings that competition affects working memory performance (DiMenichi & Tricomi, 2015). Other studies (DiMenichi & Tricomi, 2016) have also concluded that decreased working memory performance during competition can be predicted by increased brain activity.…”

Section: Mixed Factorial Anova Pearson's R Ssim Jaccardsupporting

confidence: 92%

Pseudo‐mutual gazing enhances interbrain synchrony during remote joint attention tasking

Chuang

Hsu

2023

Brain and Behavior

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IntroductionMutual gaze enables people to share attention and increase engagement during social interactions through intentional and implicit messages. Although previous studies have explored gaze behaviors and neural mechanisms underlying in‐person eye contact, the growing prevalence of remote communication has raised questions about how to establish mutual gaze remotely and how the brains of interacting individuals synchronize.MethodsTo address these questions, we conducted a study using eye trackers to create a pseudo‐mutual gaze channel that mirrors the gazes of each interacting dyad on their respective remote screens. To demonstrate fluctuations in coupling across brains, we incorporated electroencephalographic hyperscanning techniques to simultaneously record the brain activity of interacting dyads engaged in a joint attention task in player‐observer, collaborative, and competitive modes.ResultsOur results indicated that mutual gaze could improve the efficiency of joint attention activities among remote partners. Moreover, by employing the phase locking value, we could estimate interbrain synchrony (IBS) and observe low‐frequency couplings in the frontal and temporal regions that varied based on the interaction mode. While dyadic gender composition significantly affected gaze patterns, it did not impact the IBS.ConclusionThese results provide insight into the neurological mechanisms underlying remote interaction through the pseudo‐mutual gaze channel and have significant implications for developing effective online communication environments.

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Section: Mixed Factorial Anova Pearson's R Ssim Jaccardsupporting

confidence: 92%

Pseudo‐mutual gazing enhances interbrain synchrony during remote joint attention tasking

Chuang

Hsu

2023

Brain and Behavior

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“…Cognitive load also appears to diminish people's ability to imagine themselves in another's perspective (Davis et al, 1996) and similar effects are observed in subjects with working memory deficits (Lin et al, 2010). Conversely, taking the perspective of another person has been shown to detract cognitive resources from concurrent behavioural performance (Vorauer et al, 2009) and working memory performance has been shown to be impaired during a competitive task likely to entail some degree of perspective taking (DiMenichi and Tricomi, 2017). All of these results are consistent with the notion that people process others' perspectives by serially and effortfully adjusting from their own, and are only able to do so when they have sufficient cognitive resources and are sufficiently incentivised to employ them.…”

Section: Cognitively Effortful Theory Of Mindmentioning

confidence: 81%

Effort shapes social cognition and behaviour: A neuro-cognitive framework

Contreras-Huerta

Pisauro

Apps

2020

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Theoretical accounts typically posit that variability in social behaviour is a function of capacity limits. We argue that many social behaviours are goal-directed and effortful, and thus variability is not just a function of capacity, but also motivation. Leveraging recent work examining the cognitive, computational and neural basis of effort processing, we put forward a framework for motivated social cognition. We argue that social cognition is demanding, people avoid its effort costs, and a core-circuit of brain areas that guides effort-based decisions in nonsocial situations may similarly evaluate whether social behaviours are worth the effort. Thus, effort sensitivity dissociates capacity limits from social motivation, and may be a driver of individual differences and pathological impairments in social cognition.

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“…Additionally, behavioral results (see Supporting materials) revealed that during the outcome judgment task, RTs were longer for negative outcomes involving social comparison than for positive outcomes in the competition condition but not in the noncompetition condition as well as in the self‐positive condition but not in the self‐negative condition, suggesting longer RTs for negative outcomes involving social comparison only in the competition and self‐positive condition. It has been reported that competition impairs stimulus memory (DiMenichi & Tricomi, 2015, 2017; Liu et al., 2021). In addition, previous studies have also shown that memory of target stimuli is impeded by negative context (Lin et al., 2015; Lin & Liang, 2023a, 2023b).…”

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confidence: 99%

Competition influences outcome processing involving social comparison: An ERP study

Lin,

Liang

2023

Psychophysiology

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In a complicated social context, outcome evaluation involves not only oneself but also others in relation to the self (i.e., social comparison). Previous event‐related potential (ERP) studies have investigated the processing of social comparison‐related outcomes when one's interests are independent of the interests of others (i.e., noncompetition circumstances). However, it is unclear how social comparison‐related outcomes are processed in the brain when there are conflicts of interest between oneself and others (i.e., competition circumstances). To address this issue, participants in the current study were asked to perform an attentional task with several peers and were subsequently presented with self‐related outcomes (i.e., the performance difference between the current trial and several preceding trials) and social comparison‐related outcomes (i.e., the performance difference between oneself and their peer). Importantly, rewards and punishments were based on social comparison‐related outcomes in the competition condition and on self‐related outcomes in the noncompetition condition. ERP results revealed that in the competition condition, positive outcomes involving social comparison elicited a greater P300 response than negative outcomes, whereas this effect was not observed in the noncompetition condition. Additionally, there was generally a larger late positive potential (LPP) response to negative outcomes involving social comparison than to positive outcomes only when one obtained a self‐related positive outcome in the competition condition. These findings suggest that competition might strengthen outcome processing involving social comparison at late time ranges relying on self‐related outcomes to some extent.

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Increases in brain activity during social competition predict decreases in working memory performance and later recall

Cited by 13 publications

References 87 publications

Pseudo‐mutual gazing enhances interbrain synchrony during remote joint attention tasking

Pseudo‐mutual gazing enhances interbrain synchrony during remote joint attention tasking

Effort shapes social cognition and behaviour: A neuro-cognitive framework

Competition influences outcome processing involving social comparison: An ERP study

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