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Brains that fire together wire together: Interbrain plasticity underlies interaction-based learning

Description du projet

Améliorer l’apprentissage au niveau cerveau à cerveau

Même si les interactions sociales sont des déterminants importants de l’apprentissage, le domaine de la neuroplasticité n’en tient pas compte. Au lieu de cela, il est profondément enraciné dans l’exploration des changements se produisant dans les synapses, les structures cérébrales et les réseaux au sein d’un cerveau individuel. Le projet INTERPLASTIC, financé par le CER, proposera cependant une nouvelle approche qui synthétise des découvertes disparates sur la neuroplasticité des réseaux et les mécanismes des interactions sociales. Il testera si l’effet de facilitation des interactions sociales sur l’apprentissage peut s’expliquer par la plasticité intercérébrale (changements dépendants de l’expérience à court et à long terme dans le couplage intercérébral).

Objectif

Traditionally, brain plasticity was viewed as a change occurring in synapses, brain structures and functional networks, within an individual brain. Considering that social interactions play a major role in the acquisitions of skills and knowledge, I suggest a new approach for understanding interaction-based learning that focuses on inter-brain plasticity. The term coined here, inter-brain plasticity, will be defined as the short and long-term experience-dependent changes in brain-to-brain coupling. I argue that inter-brain plasticity in the observation-execution system develops over the course of interaction-based learning to facilitate information exchange between partners and thus learning. The proposed study aims at introducing a new theory on how inter-brain networks reorganize following training in interaction-based learning. It has three objectives: 1) To develop a model of inter-brain plasticity during learning (short-term), following training (long-term) and generalization between/within interaction partners; 2) To develop a novel dyadic-neurofeedback technology that allows drawing causal inferences between inter-brain plasticity and learning; 3) To test whether diminished inter-brain plasticity in Autism Spectrum Disorders may be reversed following training with the new dyadic neurofeedback. To address these questions, I will take advantage of the high temporal resolution of state-of-the-art dual-functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) setup and examine how intra- and inter-brain networks reconfigure during learning of various skills, ranging from motor learning to language acquisition. The proposed experiments will lay the foundation for a new field of research focusing on the dynamics of inter-brain networks. The inter-brain plasticity approach will radically change how we view neuroplasticity. It will allow for the first time probing the long-term changes in the reconfiguration of inter-brain networks.

Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)

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Régime de financement

ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant

Institution d’accueil

UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 2 597 700,00

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