Project description
Insights from cutting-edge brain research
Effective communication across generations remains a challenge, as brain research reveals significant differences in how various age groups process information. To bridge this gap, the ERC-funded InterCom project will explore these differences. Specifically, it will combine laboratory research with real-world experimentation, focusing on ‘brain-to-brain synchrony’ and other measures. To understand intergenerational communication dynamics, the project will collect data from diverse groups during community storytelling events. The data will then be used to refine laboratory studies. This reciprocal approach intends to address questions about how age-related brain rhythms impact conversation flow and prediction accuracy. By merging naturalistic observations with controlled experiments, InterCom aims to examine and enhance communication across ages to improve intergenerational interactions.
Objective
While many of our daily interactions involve people of different ages, little is known about how the human brain supports naturalistic communication between generations. InterCom combines laboratory research with real-world experimentation, and intrapersonal analyses with interpersonal measures (e.g. ‘brain-to-brain synchrony’), to better understand multi-generational communication, both within and beyond family contexts.
Do age-related differences in brain rhythms inhibit conversational flow? How do listeners process speech produced by children or older adults? Can intergenerational miscommunications be partly attributed to the fact that children and older adults are less likely to predict what others are about to say? How can we overcome implicit neurobehavioral culprits of misalignment? Curiously, while laboratory studies have shown that there are significant differences in how children, adults, and older adults process (non)verbal information, these and related questions remain largely unanswered.
InterCom will test a novel ‘community neuroscience’ approach, one that flows from the real world, to the lab, and back. We will collect brain, body, and language data from socio-culturally diverse groups of children, adults, and older adults during real-world storytelling events that are co-designed with community partners. The data collected during these events will then inform and constrain subsequent laboratory studies and vice versa. As such, InterCom leverages the benefits while offsetting the downsides of both naturalistic observations and experimental control, and will innovate on and combine laboratory and real-world data collection, stimulus development, and data analysis in a truly reciprocal manner.
Together, InterCom will tread previously uncharted territory in both intergenerational and real-world neuroscience research to generate insights and tools to investigate and improve communication between and across generations.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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9000 Gent
Belgium
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