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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 120, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2301614120
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motor entrainment; arm movement; phase; group cohesion
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It has been found that macaque monkeys can exhibit social motor entrainment without human prompting. The repetitive arm movements for horizontal bar sliding were found to be phase coherent between two monkeys. This behavior is facilitated by real-time social exchanges and provides a behavioral platform to study the neural basis of potentially evolutionarily conserved mechanisms that support group cohesion.
Movement synchronization between individuals has been implicated in reinforcing their cohesion. How might such interindividual motor entrainment be controlled by the social brain? The answer remains elusive owing largely to the lack of suitable animal models in which direct neural recordings are available. Here, we show that macaque monkeys exhibit social motor entrainment without human prompting. We found that repetitive arm movements for horizontal bar sliding were phase coherent between two monkeys. The nature of motor entrainment was specific to animal pairs, consistent across days, dependent on visual inputs, and affected by social hierarchy. Notably, the entrainment was diminished when paired with prerecorded movies of a monkey making the same movements or bar motion alone. These findings demon-strate that motor entrainment is facilitated by real-time social exchanges, providing a behavioral platform to study the neural basis of potentially evolutionarily conserved mechanisms that support group cohesion.
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