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2023-08-16 Science & Technology
When You Sync with Someone, Your Brains Wave Together
'I was just thinking about you... when you called.'
[EN] At Scientific American, Lydia Denworth brought up an interesting topic earlier this month: The way that brain waves synchronize between two people who are communicating successfully:

Neurons in corresponding locations of the different brains fire at the same time, creating matching patterns, like dancers moving together. Auditory and visual areas respond to shape, sound and movement in similar ways, whereas higher-order brain areas seem to behave similarly during more challenging tasks such as making meaning out of something seen or heard. The experience of "being on the same wavelength" as another person is real, and it is visible in the activity of the brain.

— Lydia Denworth, "Brain Waves Synchronize When People Interact," Scientific American, July 1, 2023

For example, she tells us, "Couples exhibit higher degrees of brain synchrony than nonromantic pairs, as do close friends compared with more distant acquaintances." There’s a name for the study of such moments: collective neuroscience.

NOT A NEW DISCOVERY
Synchrony is not a brand new discovery but methods of tracking it (hyperscanning) have become more innovative in the last decade. The prospect of using synchrony to better track and understand success or failure in learning environments is attracting neuroscientists to the field. One study from the Basque research centre BCBL using electroencephalography (EEG) reported,
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#1 Reminiscent of an earlier post on quantum entanglement.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-16 03:14||   2023-08-16 03:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Sci American is a joke rag. Climate Change and Faux Science du jour
Posted by Frank G 2023-08-16 07:17||   2023-08-16 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 You WILL be assimilated!
Posted by ed in texas 2023-08-16 10:28||   2023-08-16 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't believe anything at face from SciAm.

Even back in the early 2000s.

The article which finally made me remove it from the shitbox room was how because Global Cooling was imminent, we need to start cloning Ice Age Animals.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-08-16 10:37||   2023-08-16 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 "Bring back the MAMMOTHS!"
Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-16 11:59||   2023-08-16 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Been looking for it a long time...

[1998]Neuronal coincidence detection by voltage-sensitive electrical synapses
Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-16 12:08||   2023-08-16 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ I knew all along my problem was low voltage.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-16 12:09||   2023-08-16 12:09|| Front Page Top

#8 That pacemaker is pulling too much!
Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-16 15:35||   2023-08-16 15:35|| Front Page Top

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