Differential Effect of the Physical Embodiment on the Prefrontal Cortex Activity as Quantified by Its Entropy

• Published in: Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 21; no. 9; p. 875
• Main Authors: Keshmiri, Soheil, Sumioka, Hidenobu, Yamazaki, Ryuji, Ishiguro, Hiroshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 08.09.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Adaptation; Anthropomorphism; Brain; Brain research; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; differential entropy; embodied media; Human engineering; Human subjects; humanoid; Hypotheses; Influence; Investigations; Nonverbal communication; Physiology; prefrontal cortex; Remote control; Robotics; Robots; Social factors; Social interaction; Spectrum analysis; tele-communication; Verbal communication

Computer-mediated-communication (CMC) research suggests that unembodied media can surpass in-person communication due to their utility to bypass the nonverbal components of verbal communication such as physical presence and facial expressions. However, recent results on communicative humanoids sugge...