{"id":193950,"date":"2024-08-02T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/brain-activity-associated-with-specific-words-is-mirrored-between-speaker-and-listener-during-a-conversation-data-show"},"modified":"2024-08-02T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:27:11","slug":"brain-activity-associated-with-specific-words-is-mirrored-between-speaker-and-listener-during-a-conversation-data-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/brain-activity-associated-with-specific-words-is-mirrored-between-speaker-and-listener-during-a-conversation-data-show","title":{"rendered":"Brain activity associated with specific words is mirrored between speaker and listener during a conversation, data show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-activity-associated-with-specific-words-is-mirrored-between-speaker-and-listener-during-a-conversation-data-show2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When two people interact, their brain activity becomes synchronized, but it was unclear until now to what extent this \u201cbrain-to-brain coupling\u201d is due to linguistic information or other factors, such as body language or tone of voice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273(24)00460-4\" target=\"_blank\">Researchers report<\/a> August 2 in the journal <i>Neuron<\/i> that brain-to-brain coupling during <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/conversation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">conversation<\/a> can be modeled by considering the words used during that conversation, and the context in which they are used.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can see linguistic content emerge word-by-word in the speaker\u2019s brain before they actually articulate what they\u2019re trying to say, and the same linguistic content rapidly reemerges in the listener\u2019s brain after they hear it,\u201d says first author and neuroscientist Zaid Zada of Princeton University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When two people interact, their brain activity becomes synchronized, but it was unclear until now to what extent this \u201cbrain-to-brain coupling\u201d is due to linguistic information or other factors, such as body language or tone of voice. Researchers report August 2 in the journal Neuron that brain-to-brain coupling during conversation can be modeled by considering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193950","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}