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What Makes Eye Contact Special? Neural Substrates of On-Line Mutual Eye-Gaze: A Hyperscanning fMRI Study

Takahiko Koike, Motofumi Sumiya, Eri Nakagawa, Shuntaro Okazaki and Norihiro Sadato
eNeuro 25 February 2019, 6 (1) ENEURO.0284-18.2019; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0284-18.2019
Takahiko Koike
1Division of Cerebral Integration, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Aichi 444-8585, Japan
2Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Life Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama 240-0193, Japan
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Motofumi Sumiya
1Division of Cerebral Integration, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Aichi 444-8585, Japan
2Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Life Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama 240-0193, Japan
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Eri Nakagawa
1Division of Cerebral Integration, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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Shuntaro Okazaki
1Division of Cerebral Integration, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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Norihiro Sadato
1Division of Cerebral Integration, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Aichi 444-8585, Japan
2Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Life Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama 240-0193, Japan
3Biomedical Imaging Research Center (BIRC), University of Fukui, Fukui 910-1193, Japan
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0284-18.2019
PubMed 
30834300
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History 
  • Received July 12, 2018
  • Revision received January 27, 2019
  • Accepted February 5, 2019
  • Published online February 25, 2019.
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Copyright © 2019 Koike et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Takahiko Koike1,2,
  2. Motofumi Sumiya1,2,
  3. Eri Nakagawa1,
  4. Shuntaro Okazaki1 and
  5. Norihiro Sadato1,2,3
  1. 1Division of Cerebral Integration, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Aichi 444-8585, Japan
  2. 2Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Life Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama 240-0193, Japan
  3. 3Biomedical Imaging Research Center (BIRC), University of Fukui, Fukui 910-1193, Japan
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Norihiro Sadato at sadato{at}nips.ac.jp.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: T.K. and N.S. designed research; T.K., M.S., E.N., and S.O. performed research; T.K. analyzed data; T.K. and N.S. wrote the paper; S.O. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This study was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) #15H01846 to N.S.; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology KAKENHI #15K12775, JSPS KAKENHI #18H04207, and JSPS KAKENHI #15H05875 to T.K.; and JSPS KAKENHI #16K16894 to E.N. This research is partially supported by the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) under Grant JP18dm0107152 and by the HAYAO NAKAYAMA Foundation for Science & Technology and Culture.

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  • Hayao Nakayama Foundation for Science and Technology and Culture

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Takahiko Koike, Motofumi Sumiya, Eri Nakagawa, Shuntaro Okazaki, Norihiro Sadato
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