Experimental design for face-to-face vocal communication in MRI/MEG environment

Speech motor control is one of the most complex ones in human's motor controls. Although a face-to-face communication is an important aspect of actual vocal communication, its neural mechanisms have not sufficiently investigated until now. This may originate in inherent measurement methods for brain functions which are not suitable for face-to-face communication. In this study, we tried to construct an experimental setup where the subject in MRI/MEG shield room and the experimenter in the outside could communicate each other with face-to-face. The design could make us conducting an experiment for face-to-face vocal communication in MRI/MEG environment.