Teacher-Student Inter-Brain and Behavioral Synchronies in Remote Education

Interpersonal synchrony plays a crucial role in education. This study investigated inter-brain synchrony (IBS) during remote education and its effects on learning outcomes, rapport, and behavioral synchrony. Twenty-eight participants conducted a vocabulary learning task with a remote teacher under t...

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Main Authors: Jaehwan You, Myeongul Jung, Yoonhee Shin, Kwanguk Kim
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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description Interpersonal synchrony plays a crucial role in education. This study investigated inter-brain synchrony (IBS) during remote education and its effects on learning outcomes, rapport, and behavioral synchrony. Twenty-eight participants conducted a vocabulary learning task with a remote teacher under two conditions: voice and webcam conditions. The results showed that participants formed a higher IBS with the remote teacher in the webcam condition. We also observed that the brain regions of frontopolar prefrontal cortex (FP-PFC) and left orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) were positively associated with learning outcomes and rapport, respectively. Furthermore, we observed that the concurrent behavioral synchrony (BS) of eye movements was related to IBS in the left OFC. Our findings provide valuable insights for future research on interpersonal synchrony and their implications for the development of effective teaching methodologies in remote education.
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spelling doaj-art-98f7c5e50b5f48fdb098a4a4afa4db4d2025-08-20T03:53:52ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113870268703510.1109/ACCESS.2025.356996111004060Teacher-Student Inter-Brain and Behavioral Synchronies in Remote EducationJaehwan You0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-6508Myeongul Jung1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9432-103XYoonhee Shin2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6684-3404Kwanguk Kim3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4184-2058Department of Computer Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, South KoreaDepartment of Clothing and Textiles, Hanyang University, Seoul, South KoreaDepartment of Educational Technology, Hanyang University, Seoul, South KoreaDepartment of Computer Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, South KoreaInterpersonal synchrony plays a crucial role in education. This study investigated inter-brain synchrony (IBS) during remote education and its effects on learning outcomes, rapport, and behavioral synchrony. Twenty-eight participants conducted a vocabulary learning task with a remote teacher under two conditions: voice and webcam conditions. The results showed that participants formed a higher IBS with the remote teacher in the webcam condition. We also observed that the brain regions of frontopolar prefrontal cortex (FP-PFC) and left orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) were positively associated with learning outcomes and rapport, respectively. Furthermore, we observed that the concurrent behavioral synchrony (BS) of eye movements was related to IBS in the left OFC. Our findings provide valuable insights for future research on interpersonal synchrony and their implications for the development of effective teaching methodologies in remote education.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11004060/Remote educationinter-brain synchronybehavioral synchrony
spellingShingle Jaehwan You
Myeongul Jung
Yoonhee Shin
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Teacher-Student Inter-Brain and Behavioral Synchronies in Remote Education
IEEE Access
Remote education
inter-brain synchrony
behavioral synchrony
title Teacher-Student Inter-Brain and Behavioral Synchronies in Remote Education
title_full Teacher-Student Inter-Brain and Behavioral Synchronies in Remote Education
title_fullStr Teacher-Student Inter-Brain and Behavioral Synchronies in Remote Education
title_full_unstemmed Teacher-Student Inter-Brain and Behavioral Synchronies in Remote Education
title_short Teacher-Student Inter-Brain and Behavioral Synchronies in Remote Education
title_sort teacher student inter brain and behavioral synchronies in remote education
topic Remote education
inter-brain synchrony
behavioral synchrony
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11004060/
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