{"id":242996,"date":"2026-08-21T01:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/when-people-of-different-generations-create-together-brain-activity-changes"},"modified":"2026-08-21T01:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:30:25","slug":"when-people-of-different-generations-create-together-brain-activity-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/when-people-of-different-generations-create-together-brain-activity-changes","title":{"rendered":"When people of different generations create together, brain activity changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-people-of-different-generations-create-together-brain-activity-changes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When people of different generations create art together, their brains initially show more synchrony, and the synchrony can predict feelings of loneliness or social connection, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pbio.3003899\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> Aug. 20 in the journal <i>PLOS Biology<\/i> by Ryssa Moffat from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Loneliness\u2014a perceived feeling of social isolation\u2014is a growing health risk. Policymakers and health practitioners are working on methods to create meaningful social interactions that bring people together, especially between generations. But while intergenerational interactions can increase well-being in older adults, the physiological changes resulting from them are unknown.<\/p>\n<p>To better understand changes in the brain that might come as intergenerational relationships are formed, the authors of this <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/hz6tm\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">pre-registered study<\/a> collected data from 31 intergenerational pairs, recruiting adults older than 70 and pairing them with adults between 18 and 35, and comparing them with 30 same-generation pairs of younger adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people of different generations create art together, their brains initially show more synchrony, and the synchrony can predict feelings of loneliness or social connection, according to a study published Aug. 20 in the journal PLOS Biology by Ryssa Moffat from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and colleagues. Loneliness\u2014a perceived feeling of social isolation\u2014is a growing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242996","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=242996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}