TY - JOUR AU - Balconi, Michela AU - Vanutelli, Maria Elide PY - 2018 DA - 2018/10/18 TI - Functional EEG connectivity during competition JO - BMC Neuroscience SP - 63 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Social behavior and interactions pervasively shape and influence our lives and relationships. Competition, in particular, has become a core topic in social neuroscience since it stresses the relevance and salience of social comparison processes between the inter-agents that are involved in a common task. The majority of studies, however, investigated such kind of social interaction via one-person individual paradigms, thus not taking into account relevant information concerning interdependent participants’ behavioral and neural responses. In the present study, dyads of volunteers participated in a hyperscanning paradigm and competed in a computerized attention task while their electrophysiological (EEG) activity and performance were monitored and recorded. Behavioral data and inter-brain coupling measures based on EEG frequency data were then computed and compared across different experimental conditions: a control condition (individual task, t0), a first competitive condition (pre-feedback condition, t1), and a second competitive condition following a positive reinforcing feedback (post-feedback condition, t2). SN - 1471-2202 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12868-018-0464-6 DO - 10.1186/s12868-018-0464-6 ID - Balconi2018 ER -