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Team Flow Is a Unique Brain State Associated with Enhanced Information Integration and Interbrain Synchrony

Mohammad Shehata, Miao Cheng, Angus Leung, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Daw-An Wu, Chia-huei Tseng, Shigeki Nakauchi and Shinsuke Shimojo
eNeuro 4 October 2021, 8 (5) ENEURO.0133-21.2021; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0133-21.2021
Mohammad Shehata
1Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, CA
2The Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan
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Miao Cheng
1Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, CA
3The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam 999077, Hong Kong
4NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi 243-0198, Japan
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Angus Leung
5School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya
5School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
6Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Suita 565-0871, Japan
7Advanced Telecommunications Research Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
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Daw-An Wu
1Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, CA
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Chia-huei Tseng
8Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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Shigeki Nakauchi
2The Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan
9Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan
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Shinsuke Shimojo
1Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, CA
2The Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0133-21.2021
PubMed 
34607804
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History 
  • Received March 29, 2021
  • Revision received August 19, 2021
  • Accepted September 7, 2021
  • Published online October 4, 2021.
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Copyright © 2021 Shehata 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.

Author Information

  1. Mohammad Shehata1,2,
  2. Miao Cheng1,3,4,
  3. Angus Leung5,
  4. Naotsugu Tsuchiya5,6,7,
  5. Daw-An Wu1,
  6. Chia-huei Tseng8,
  7. Shigeki Nakauchi2,9 and
  8. Shinsuke Shimojo1,2
  1. 1Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, CA
  2. 2The Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan
  3. 3The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam 999077, Hong Kong
  4. 4NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi 243-0198, Japan
  5. 5School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
  6. 6Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Suita 565-0871, Japan
  7. 7Advanced Telecommunications Research Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
  8. 8Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
  9. 9Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Mohammad Shehata at mohammad.shehata{at}gmail.com.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: M.S., M.C., and S.S. designed research; M.S., M.C., and D.-A.W. performed research; M.S., M.C., A.L., N.T., and S.S. analyzed data; M.S., M.C., A.L., N.T., D.-A.W., C.-h.T., S.N., and S.S. wrote the paper.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the Program for Promoting the Enhancement of Research Universities funded to Toyohashi University of Technology and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Fostering Joint International Research(B), Grant Number 18KK0280) (M.S. and S.N.), Sponsored Research by Qneuro, Inc. (M.S. and S.S.), Translational Research Institute through NASA Cooperative Agreement NNX16AO69A (M.S. and S.S.), and by the Japan Science and Technology (JST)-CREST Grant JPMJCR14E4 (to S.S.). M.C. is supported by the University of Hong Kong Postgraduate Scholarship Program. C.-h.T. is supported by the University of Hong Kong General Research Fund and the Cooperative Research Project Program of the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University. N.T. is supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Grants DP180104128 and DP180100396. A.L. is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.

Funding

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

    JPMJCR14E4
  • Australian Research Council (ARC)

    DP180104128 and DP180100396
  • Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT)

  • University of Hong Kong (HKU)

  • Australian Government Research Training Program

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