It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see
— Henry David Thoreau
It is clear that the filters through which we see the world — our beliefs, our emotions, our knowledge — shape our perception, behavior and interaction with other people.
Our lab is interested in studying mechanisms underlying shared and divergent understanding of real-life situations during real-life interactions. Specifically, we are interested in interpersonal synchrony as a mechanism supporting shared understanding and affective response.
We do so by…
Facial expressions analysis
Behavioral experiments studying interpersonal synchrony in facial expressions.
Physiological synchrony
Physiological measures such as HRV and eye movements.
Shared language
How people synchronize in language lexicons and communication features.
fMRI
Complex stimuli such as movies and stories, measured in the MRI scanner.
fNIRS
Brain response of two or more individuals while they interact, measured with fNIRS.