Is the communicative meaning of a behavior a property of that behavior?
Using two fMRI scanners, we found that brain activity produced through meaning negotiation synchronizes across communicators at a temporal scale independent of individual behaviors, suggesting that meaning is not a property of a behavior but of mutually coordinated contextual knowledge of the interaction.
Authors
Arjen Stolk, Matthijs L. Noordzij, Lennart Verhagen, Inge Volman, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Robert Oostenveld, Peter Hagoort, Ivan Toni
Publication
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)