Theoretical Grounds of Shared Intentionality for Neuroscience in Devel-oping Bioengineering Systems

Abstract

The article discusses a definition of shared intentionality that reflects recent discoveries for inspiring further translational research in developing bioengineering systems based on human-computer interaction. The child's cognition begins through shared intentionality that occurs in child-caregiver interaction when communication via sensory cues is impossible. There needs to be more knowledge on how it appears. This article argues that shared intentionality is collaborative interactions in which participants share the essential sensory stimulus of the actual cognitive problem. This social bond enables ecological training of the immature organism, starting at the reflexes stage of development, for processing the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in developing perception. In nature, shared intentionality appears in mother-child dyads in increasing interpersonal dynamics due to mechanisms of cell coupling that provide an ecological developmental template. Knowledge about neurophysiological processes occurring during pre-perceptual communication can contribute to advances in bioengineering systems.

Low-Frequency Oscillations for Nonlocal Neuronal Coupling in Shared Intentionality Before and After Birth: Toward the Origin of Perception

“…There is a broad consensus in cognitive sciences that Shared Intentionality is one of the leading providers of ecological learning in organisms at the onset of cognition [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Organisms at the reflexes substage of the sensorimotor stage of development lack communicative ability.…”

“…Organisms at the reflexes substage of the sensorimotor stage of development lack communicative ability. Shared Intentionality enables them to process the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information for developing perception [12][13][14]. Then, this ecological training provides young organisms with statistical learning of social meanings in response to the history of relationships with the environment [12][13][14][15].…”

“…Shared Intentionality enables them to process the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information for developing perception [12][13][14]. Then, this ecological training provides young organisms with statistical learning of social meanings in response to the history of relationships with the environment [12][13][14][15]. Due to Shared Intentionality, immature organisms (recipients) fill sensory stimuli with conventional meanings by collecting statistical information from cascading successful and unsuccessful attempts [12][13][14][15].…”

“…Numerous psychophysiological research declared to observe Shared Intentionality in pairs of individuals [16][17][18][19] by emulating the mother-newborn (or mother-fetus) communication model in these pairs [15,20] and even by assessing the magnitude of this pre-perceptual communication [21,22]. Recent research examined fidelity rates of the computer-aided method of diagnosing cognitive development delay in children that assessed the shared intentionality magnitude in neurodivergent and neurotypical children [23].…”

“…Neuroscience hyper-scanning research [24][25][26][27][28] registered an increased inter-brain activity when subjects completed shared cognitive tasks without communication in pairs, in contrast to when subjects performed a similar task alone. Recent theoretical articles proposed a hypothesis of neurobiological processes occurring during shared intentionality [12,13]. They argued that this pre-perceptual communication succeeds via the nonlocal coupling of neurons [12,13].…”