Brains Might Sync As People Interact — and That Could Upend Consciousness Research

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🔄From the archive: When we cooperate on certain tasks, our brainwaves might synchronize. This finding could upend the current understanding of consciousness.

during certain tasks. In other words, different people’s neural oscillations aligned when they cooperated.

Neuroscientists needed to rule out the possibility that this neural synchronization occurred due to a shared environment, similarities in sensory input , or in motor output .in 2016, examined the neural activity of pilots and co-pilots during a flight simulation. In this case, the environment remains the same but the level of cooperation varies throughout the task.

A potential explanation: Functional links across brains increase when people work together, but not for those who arefrom 2018, greater neural synchronization occurred between subjects when they were told to complete a puzzle together. Synchronization levels dropped when the same subjects had to complete identical puzzles individually, or when both watched other people finish one.

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