Construction of a fiber-optically connected MEG hyperscanning system for recording brain activity during real-time communication

• Hayato Watanabe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hayato Watanabe, Atsushi Shimojo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Child Studies, Toyooka Junior College, Toyooka, Hyogo, Japan, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1290-5558

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• Atsushi Shimojo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hayato Watanabe, Atsushi Shimojo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Kazuyori Yagyu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Tsuyoshi Sonehara,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research and Development Group, Hitachi Ltd., Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Kazuyoshi Takano,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate school of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Jared Boasen,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Tech3Lab, HEC Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Hideaki Shiraishi,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Koichi Yokosawa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yokosawa@med.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1589-8293

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• Takuya Saito

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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