Human-Human Interactions

Through social interaction paradigms we have studied how brain structures are able to activate in response to different Vitality Forms. We found that in a social interaction in which the participant observed an actor passing an object in a rough or gentle manner, the area of the central dorsal insula and anterior cingulate cortex were activated. The activation of the same areas also occurred in a motor condition in which it was the participant himself who passed in a rough or gentle manner.

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Experimental paradigm of observation and execution of a bottle pass in a rough or gentle manner (Di Cesare et al., 2021)
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Image showing activation of the central dorsal insula and anterior cingulate in a functional magnetic resonance imaging social interaction paradigm. It is shown that the two areas are activated differently for rough and kind acts (Di Cesare et al., 2021)