Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Tracks Real-World Dynamic Group Interactions in the Classroom

The human brain has evolved for group living [1Dunbar I.R. The social brain hypothesis.in: Cacioppo J.T. Foundations in Social Neuroscience. MIT Press, 2002: 69-88Google Scholar]. Yet we know so little about how it supports dynamic group interactions that the study of real-world social exchanges has been dubbed the “dark matter of social neuroscience” [2Schilbach L. Timmermans B. Reddy V. Costall A. Bente G. Schlicht T. Vogeley K. Toward a second-person neuroscience.Behav. Brain Sci. 2013; 36: 393-414Crossref PubMed Scopus (890) Google Scholar]. Recently, various studies have begun to approach this question by comparing brain responses of multiple individuals during a variety of (semi-naturalistic) tasks…

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