Elizabeth Redcay (PSYC), Caroline Charpentier (PSCY/BBI), Rachel Romeo (HDQM),andPhilip Resnik (ARHU/UMIACS), were awarded a 2024 Seed Grant from the Brain & Behavior Institute for their project “Computational Social Neuroscience in the Wild”.
This project will study real-life social interactions by analyzing both people’s brain activity during natural conversations. They aim to understand how each person’s brain processes language and social cues, and dynamically responds to a conversation partner. Unlike typical studies where one person is observed in an artificial setting, this innovative research looks at two participants talking to each other in real time.