Differential Effect of the Physical Embodiment on the Prefrontal Cortex Activity as Quantified by Its Entropy
Computer-mediated-communication (CMC) research suggests that unembodied media can surpass in-person communication due to their utility to bypass the nonverbal components of verbal communication such as physical presence and facial expressions. However, recent results on communicative humanoids sugge...
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| author | Soheil Keshmiri Hidenobu Sumioka Ryuji Yamazaki Hiroshi Ishiguro |
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| description | Computer-mediated-communication (CMC) research suggests that unembodied media can surpass in-person communication due to their utility to bypass the nonverbal components of verbal communication such as physical presence and facial expressions. However, recent results on communicative humanoids suggest the importance of the physical embodiment of conversational partners. These contradictory findings are strengthened by the fact that almost all of these results are based on the subjective assessments of the behavioural impacts of these systems. To investigate these opposing views of the potential role of the embodiment during communication, we compare the effect of a physically embodied medium that is remotely controlled by a human operator with such unembodied media as telephones and video-chat systems on the frontal brain activity of human subjects, given the pivotal role of this region in social cognition and verbal comprehension. Our results provide evidence that communicating through a physically embodied medium affects the frontal brain activity of humans whose patterns potentially resemble those of in-person communication. These findings argue for the significance of embodiment in naturalistic scenarios of social interaction, such as storytelling and verbal comprehension, and the potential application of brain information as a promising sensory gateway in the characterization of behavioural responses in human-robot interaction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-14dc23f95b9641e08af0073bc1419c4e2022-12-22T04:08:47ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002019-09-0121987510.3390/e21090875e21090875Differential Effect of the Physical Embodiment on the Prefrontal Cortex Activity as Quantified by Its EntropySoheil Keshmiri0Hidenobu Sumioka1Ryuji Yamazaki2Hiroshi Ishiguro3Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories (HIL), Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto 619-02, JapanHiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories (HIL), Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto 619-02, JapanSymbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, JapanHiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories (HIL), Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto 619-02, JapanComputer-mediated-communication (CMC) research suggests that unembodied media can surpass in-person communication due to their utility to bypass the nonverbal components of verbal communication such as physical presence and facial expressions. However, recent results on communicative humanoids suggest the importance of the physical embodiment of conversational partners. These contradictory findings are strengthened by the fact that almost all of these results are based on the subjective assessments of the behavioural impacts of these systems. To investigate these opposing views of the potential role of the embodiment during communication, we compare the effect of a physically embodied medium that is remotely controlled by a human operator with such unembodied media as telephones and video-chat systems on the frontal brain activity of human subjects, given the pivotal role of this region in social cognition and verbal comprehension. Our results provide evidence that communicating through a physically embodied medium affects the frontal brain activity of humans whose patterns potentially resemble those of in-person communication. These findings argue for the significance of embodiment in naturalistic scenarios of social interaction, such as storytelling and verbal comprehension, and the potential application of brain information as a promising sensory gateway in the characterization of behavioural responses in human-robot interaction.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/9/875differential entropyembodied mediatele-communicationhumanoidprefrontal cortex |
| spellingShingle | Soheil Keshmiri Hidenobu Sumioka Ryuji Yamazaki Hiroshi Ishiguro Differential Effect of the Physical Embodiment on the Prefrontal Cortex Activity as Quantified by Its Entropy Entropy differential entropy embodied media tele-communication humanoid prefrontal cortex |
| title | Differential Effect of the Physical Embodiment on the Prefrontal Cortex Activity as Quantified by Its Entropy |
| title_full | Differential Effect of the Physical Embodiment on the Prefrontal Cortex Activity as Quantified by Its Entropy |
| title_fullStr | Differential Effect of the Physical Embodiment on the Prefrontal Cortex Activity as Quantified by Its Entropy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Differential Effect of the Physical Embodiment on the Prefrontal Cortex Activity as Quantified by Its Entropy |
| title_short | Differential Effect of the Physical Embodiment on the Prefrontal Cortex Activity as Quantified by Its Entropy |
| title_sort | differential effect of the physical embodiment on the prefrontal cortex activity as quantified by its entropy |
| topic | differential entropy embodied media tele-communication humanoid prefrontal cortex |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/9/875 |
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