{"id":185645,"date":"2024-03-21T12:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/social-bonding-gets-people-on-the-same-wavelength-neural-synchronization-study-suggests"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:36:45","slug":"social-bonding-gets-people-on-the-same-wavelength-neural-synchronization-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/social-bonding-gets-people-on-the-same-wavelength-neural-synchronization-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Social bonding gets people on the same wavelength, neural synchronization study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/social-bonding-gets-people-on-the-same-wavelength-neural-synchronization-study-suggests3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When small hierarchical groups bond, neural activity between leaders and followers aligns, promoting quicker and more frequent communication, according to a study published on March 19 in the open-access journal <i>PLOS Biology<\/i> by Jun Ni from Beijing Normal University, China, and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Social groups are often organized hierarchically, where status differences and bonds between members shape the group\u2019s dynamic. To better understand how bonding influences communication within hierarchical groups and which <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+regions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain regions<\/a> are involved in these processes, the researchers recorded 176 three-person groups of human participants (who had never met before) while they communicated with each other, sitting face-to-face in a triangle.<\/p>\n<p>Participants wore caps with fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy) electrodes to non-invasively measure brain activity while they communicated with their <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/group+members\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">group members<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When small hierarchical groups bond, neural activity between leaders and followers aligns, promoting quicker and more frequent communication, according to a study published on March 19 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Jun Ni from Beijing Normal University, China, and colleagues. Social groups are often organized hierarchically, where status differences and bonds between members [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}