Mattia Rosso, Bavo Van Kerrebroeck, Peter Erik Keller, Marc Leman, Pieter-Jan Maes, Peter Vuust
{"title":"Neural Oscillatory Dynamics in Joint Action: Dissociable Roles of Entrainment and Beta Modulation in Self–Other Integration","authors":"Mattia Rosso, Bavo Van Kerrebroeck, Peter Erik Keller, Marc Leman, Pieter-Jan Maes, Peter Vuust","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70314","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70314","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Temporal coordination is fundamental for human communication and collaboration, yet the underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. Central to this process is self–other integration, defined here as the extent to which a partner is processed as self-relevant and incorporated into one's sensorimotor representations. Recent evidence suggests that beta-band oscillatory dynamics may provide a shared sensorimotor framework supporting such integration. Here, we leveraged an immersive virtual-reality body-swap illusion to experimentally manipulate the embodiment of a partner's hand during joint rhythmic action, thereby testing the sensitivity of oscillatory brain dynamics to distinct levels of self–other integration. Forty participants, paired into 20 dyads, performed a finger-tapping task while viewing either their partner's hand in first-person (1P) or second-person (2P) perspective, or their own hand in uncoupled control conditions. Electroencephalography hyperscanning demonstrated that both neural entrainment of low-frequency oscillations and beta modulation linked to partner-generated movements occurred in visually coupled conditions. However, only beta modulation was selectively enhanced when participants perceived their partner's hand from a 1P perspective. These findings suggest that while neural entrainment reflects a general mechanism for tracking a partner's rhythmic behavior, beta modulation specifically supports the integration of the other's effector into one's bodily representation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1561 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70314","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148403393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan J. Carver, Rachael R. Denbrock, Kristy M. Lau, Tonya N. Zeczycki, Changhong Yin, Weihua Huang, Alessandro Didonna
{"title":"Multiomics Profiling During Autoimmune Demyelination Highlights a Complex Regulatory Role for Ataxin-1 in B Cells","authors":"Jonathan J. Carver, Rachael R. Denbrock, Kristy M. Lau, Tonya N. Zeczycki, Changhong Yin, Weihua Huang, Alessandro Didonna","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70329","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70329","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent evidence from genome-wide association studies has linked the ataxin-1 gene (<i>ATXN1</i>) to an increased risk of developing the autoimmune demyelinating disorder multiple sclerosis. From a mechanistic standpoint, our previous work explained this genetic association by defining an immunomodulatory function for ataxin-1 in controlling specific genetic programs underlying B cell proliferation, activation, immunoglobulin production, and antigen presentation. Here, we employed a high-resolution multiomics analytical pipeline to further dissect the role of ataxin-1 in distinct B cell subsets upon encephalitogenic stress. By combining single-nuclei RNA-seq and ATAC-seq, along with mass-spectrometry proteomics, we documented that ataxin-1 is significantly enriched in B1 cells, marginal zone B cells, memory B cells, and precursor B cells. Pathway analysis highlighted that ataxin-1 is implicated in RNA splicing and translation processes. Conversely, no major effects were implicated for ataxin-1 in chromatin remodeling in the B cell population. Our findings expand the current knowledge of the cellular functions controlled by ataxin-1 outside of the central nervous system, and further describe a key regulator of B cell biology in health and disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1561 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70329","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148365616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicola Di Stefano,Alessandro Ansani,Andrea Schiavio,Suvi Saarikallio,Petri Toiviainen,Elvira Brattico,Charles Spence
{"title":"Consonance Shapes the Multisensory and Emotional Mappings of Musical Intervals Across English- and Mandarin-Speakers.","authors":"Nicola Di Stefano,Alessandro Ansani,Andrea Schiavio,Suvi Saarikallio,Petri Toiviainen,Elvira Brattico,Charles Spence","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70337","url":null,"abstract":"The exploration of sound's multisensory attributes has become increasingly central to the cognitive science of music, yet research has largely focused on a limited set of sensory dimensions, often within a single modality. Moreover, the extent to which these associations are consistently perceived by listeners from different countries and linguistic backgrounds remains an open question. To address this issue, we conducted a comprehensive investigation of how two groups of listeners-146 English-speakers from North America and the United Kingdom and 64 Mandarin-speakers from China-map harmonic intervals onto 23 sensory and affective dimensions spanning vision, touch, taste, and emotion. Our results revealed consistent associations across groups between musical intervals and gustatory, tactile, visual, and emotional attributes. Importantly, these multisensory mappings clustered according to the consonance/dissonance dimension: consonant intervals were rated as more sweet, smooth, warm, round, symmetric, and bright, whereas dissonant intervals were rated as more rough, cold, spiky, asymmetric, and dark. Crucially, country of origin and language had minimal influence on these mappings, as statistical analysis based on model comparisons overwhelmingly favored simpler models without group interaction terms. These findings suggest that consonance-dissonance may serve as a core organizing principle underlying multisensory mappings of musical intervals.","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":"e70337"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148564964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mümin Güneş, Zühal Kurt, Murat Bayazıt, Nazım Aksaker, Sinan K. Yerli
{"title":"Global Trends in Light Pollution and Their Relationship With Socioeconomic Factors","authors":"Mümin Güneş, Zühal Kurt, Murat Bayazıt, Nazım Aksaker, Sinan K. Yerli","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70297","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70297","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a growing environmental pressure linked to socioeconomic development. This study examines ALAN trends from 2012 to 2024 across 165 countries using harmonized VIIRS satellite data. Globally, ALAN increased at an annual rate of 3.2%. Highest radiance levels occur in developed regions (Europe, North America, and East Asia), while remote areas remain dark. A few countries, including France and Venezuela, show declines. The study extends the VIIRS time series and applies a calibrated Kaya-identity framework integrating the human development index (HDI) and Gini coefficient. It introduces radiance density (RD) as a normalized metric linked to per-capita development for cross-national comparison. ALAN shows associations with macroeconomic indicators. Absolute ALAN correlates with total GDP (log), energy consumption, and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>R</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mn>0.73</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$R^2=0.73$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>–0.81). RD and light pollution density better reflect development quality, correlating with HDI (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>R</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mn>0.65</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$R^2=0.65$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>), GDP per capita (log) (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>R</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mn>0.63</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$R^2=0.63$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>), and life expectancy (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>R</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mn>0.62</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$R^2=0.62$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>). Predictive models achieve high explanatory power (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>R</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mn>0.87</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$R^2=0.87$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>–0.89), with population and GDP per capita as the strongest determinants.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1561 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148359127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patti Nijhuis, Cecilie Møller, Joshua S. Bamford, Jan Stupacher
{"title":"Polyrhythm Perception and Production: A Scoping Review","authors":"Patti Nijhuis, Cecilie Møller, Joshua S. Bamford, Jan Stupacher","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70330","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In music, rhythms can range from simple isochrony to complex polyrhythms, in which multiple nonharmonically related metrical hierarchies are superimposed (e.g., 2:3, 4:5). This scoping review synthesizes 64 studies comprising 96 experiments on polyrhythm perception and production. Over the past decades, research has shown that factors such as polyrhythm ratio, tempo, sensory modality, and musical training shape how we perceive and produce polyrhythms. Although most reviewed studies lack subjective measurements of polyrhythm complexity, behavioral tasks suggest that ratio sum (e.g., five in 2:3) and the Farey tree offer rough complexity estimates. While tempo affects which periodicity is perceived as the underlying beat, these effects are limited by the preference for binary subdivision grouping. Finally, the reviewed literature suggests that polyrhythms are more often perceived as integrated patterns than segregated streams. For future research, we recommend defining polyrhythms as the superposition of two or more nonharmonically related pulses that share a common cycle, and adding a clear description of whether these pulses are isochronous stimuli or perceived beats extracted from nonisochronous stimuli. Combining behavioral and subjective measures across different polyrhythmic contexts could clarify subjective complexity and under which circumstances polyrhythms are perceived and produced as integrated rhythms or segregated pulses.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1561 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70330","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148343036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yixuan Lin, Shiwei Qiu, Yiyang Xu, Yafeng Pan, Yang Hu, Xianchun Li
{"title":"Wired for Corruption: Inter-Brain Synchrony Encodes Bribery-Related Value Information and Predicts Bribery Agreement","authors":"Yixuan Lin, Shiwei Qiu, Yiyang Xu, Yafeng Pan, Yang Hu, Xianchun Li","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70327","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bribery typically arises in power-asymmetric interpersonal interactions requiring immoral collaboration between a briber and a power-holder. While previous research has predominantly adopted a single-person aspect, the neurocognitive foundation of its collaborative nature remains largely unexplored. In this study (<i>N</i> = 112), we combined a novel dyadic behavioral paradigm, computational modeling, and functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning to investigate the cognitive mechanisms and inter-brain synchrony (INS) involved in bribery decision-making. Anonymous pairs participated in a multiround coin-guessing game involving two roles. Players could propose offers to earn rewards immorally (Bribery) or morally (Control), and judges decided whether to accept them. INS in the bilateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) and right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) were measured during decision-making. Behaviorally, fewer deals were reached in the Bribery condition, as computational modeling showed that the moral costs of bribery devalued both self-interest and the counterparts’ gains. Neurally, distributed INS patterns in the PFC and rTPJ specifically represented bribery-related value information. Additionally, bribery-specific INS features—particularly those associated with moral cost, later decision phases, and rTPJ—accurately forecasted the overall bribery agreement rate across dyads. These findings highlight frontoparietal INS as a key neural marker of coordinated bribery-related information processing, advancing understanding of the neurobiological underpinnings of interpersonal corruption.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1561 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70327","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148343035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enliang Zhu, Xin Chen, Yaolin Zhu, Yan Fu, Kai Han, Bing Liu
{"title":"LM-YOLO: A Lightweight Multi-Scale Enhanced Model for Forest Smoke Detection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles","authors":"Enliang Zhu, Xin Chen, Yaolin Zhu, Yan Fu, Kai Han, Bing Liu","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70319","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Existing forest smoke detection models face limitations in recognizing small targets, achieving real-time performance, and maintaining high inference efficiency on edge devices. To overcome these challenges, this study proposes a novel lightweight multi-scale You Only Look Once (LM-YOLO) model that enhances detection accuracy and real-time capability while ensuring computational efficiency. The LM-YOLO integrates the backbone feature extraction and multi-scale fusion mechanisms of YOLOv12n. Specifically, we introduce the RFMBlock to enhance the fused representation of shallow and deep features, considering the visual characteristics of forest smoke. Meanwhile, the two-path downsampling module achieves efficient downsampling with minimal spatial information loss. To further improve localization accuracy for small and blurred smoke regions, we employ the Shape-IoU loss function. Extensive experiments on the public try123-v4 forest fire smoke dataset demonstrate that, compared with the baseline YOLOv12n under the same experimental conditions, LM-YOLO reduces the number of parameters by 34.5%, decreases the computational cost by 30.2%, and improves detection precision by 4.7%. In addition, the model achieves 92.7% precision on the public try7 dataset. These results outperform existing methods and highlight the strong adaptability of LM-YOLO for edge deployment, ultimately providing reliable technical support for early forest fire warning using unmanned aerial vehicles.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1561 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148343034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne Danielsen, Justin London, Martin Torvik Langerød, Guilherme Schmidt Câmara
{"title":"All About That Bass Drum? Asynchrony Effects on the Perceived Timing of Compound Musical Sounds","authors":"Anne Danielsen, Justin London, Martin Torvik Langerød, Guilherme Schmidt Câmara","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70306","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70306","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>When a sound occurs (i.e., its acoustic onset) is not the same as when we perceive that sound to occur. The latter location is known as the “P-center” in both music and language perception, and can be a few to over a hundred milliseconds after a sound's acoustic onset. While P-center perception in music has received scrutiny, it remains unclear how P-centers emerge when multiple instruments play together, particularly when they are not perfectly synchronized. Here, we investigate the effect of different degrees of instrument asynchrony on the P-center of their combined sound. In two experiments, participants aligned a click probe to pairs of instruments used in popular music with varying asynchronies (0–±80 ms). Results show that increasing asynchrony shifts the P-center of the compound sound later in time. Moreover, fast-attack instruments (e.g., kick drum) exert a strong pull on the P-center; fast–slow pairs largely retained a single P-center anchored to the fast-attack sound. By contrast, pairs of fast-attack sounds with ≥40 ms asynchronies between their individual P-centers provided evidence of perceptual segregation of the sound into two events. The findings show how inter-instrument asynchronies and attack characteristics jointly structure the perceived timing and unity of compound musical sounds.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1560 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148257029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefano Aicardi, Giacomo Rosa, Alessio Longo, Matteo Bozzo, Beatrice Risso, Elisa Damonte, Andrea Amaroli, Simona Candiani, Sara Ferrando
{"title":"Evolutionary Stability of the Shark Snout: Geometric Morphometrics of Ventral Facial Openings","authors":"Stefano Aicardi, Giacomo Rosa, Alessio Longo, Matteo Bozzo, Beatrice Risso, Elisa Damonte, Andrea Amaroli, Simona Candiani, Sara Ferrando","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70323","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70323","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chondrichthyans are among the most ancient vertebrates, and their morphology has enabled adaptation to diverse marine environments. In sharks, the head is the functional center for feeding, respiration, and sensory perception, reflecting a balance between phylogenetic constraints and ecological demands. Striking specializations, such as the cephalofoil of hammerhead sharks or the elongated rostrum of sawsharks, illustrate remarkable adaptations. Most studies on head shape have focused on single species or restricted clades, whereas broader analyses have focused on parts of the skull. We analyzed the ventral head morphology of 453 shark species (Selachii), focusing on the relative position of the rostrum, mouth, and nostrils (in a subset of 395 species), using standardized illustrations and landmark-based geometric morphometrics. Shape variation was related to ecological and anatomical factors. The morphological space reveals a phylogenetic signal, with reconstructed ancestral shapes close to the overall mean configuration, indicating strong morphological conservatism. Evolutionary model fitting supports Brownian motion dynamics with limited divergence from ancestral forms. Correlations with habitat and body size are weak, whereas stronger associations are observed with the number of olfactory lamellae. Our results provide a large-scale comparative framework of ventral head morphology in sharks, highlighting its evolutionary stability and predominant phylogenetic control.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1560 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148257006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eunju Jeong, You Jeong Hong, Jiyeon Shin, Jong Su Kim, Moon A Yoo, Sung-Phil Kim
{"title":"Psychological Empowerment on the Streets: Designing and Validating Multisensory Experiences in Simulated Autonomous Driving","authors":"Eunju Jeong, You Jeong Hong, Jiyeon Shin, Jong Su Kim, Moon A Yoo, Sung-Phil Kim","doi":"10.1111/nyas.70305","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nyas.70305","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Driving is evolving from a transportation task into a rich, multisensory experience in automated vehicles. This study developed and evaluated three multisensory solutions combining music with synchronized vibrotactile stimulation for autonomous driving contexts: safe (city driving), engagement (highway cruising), and entertainment (highway entry). Eighteen healthy adult drivers experienced three context–solution pairs presented in music only (M) and music with vibration (MV) modalities with simulated autonomous driving scenarios. Participants’ responses were measured using self-assessment manikin (SAM) ratings and electroencephalography (EEG). A significant main effect of modality showed that MV led to greater pleasure than M (EEG: <i>p</i> < 0.05; SAM: <i>p</i> < 0.05), with arousal showing a similar pattern (EEG: <i>p</i> < 0.05; SAM: <i>p</i> = 0.099). Behavioral data showed different emotional profiles across the three context−solution pairs (<i>p</i> < 0.001 for pleasure, arousal, and dominance), whereas the EEG contrast, which subtracted the video-only condition, showed no significant pair effect. These findings demonstrate that vibrotactile enhancement provides consistent emotional benefits across diverse driving contexts. Because each musical solution was paired with a unique driving scenario, these differences cannot be attributed solely to the music intervention. Future optimization of music and vibrotactile parameters may further enhance the autonomous driving experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":8250,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences","volume":"1560 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.70305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148257159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}