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Synchrony Across Brains

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Schilbach, Leonhard, Redcay, Elizabeth·2025·Annual Review of Psychology

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Second-person neuroscience focuses on studying the behavioral and neuronal mechanisms of real-time social interactions within single and across interacting brains. In this review article, we describe the developments that have been undertaken to study socially interactive phenomena and the behavioral and neurobiological processes that extend across interaction partners. More specifically, we focus on the role that synchrony across brains plays in enabling and facilitating social interaction and communication and in shaping social coordination and learning, and we consider how reduced synchrony across brains may constitute a core feature of psychopathology.

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  • The paradigm does not entail providing participants with any shared stimulus or task, thereby minimizing the likelihood of synchrony arising from common external input (stimulus-driven synchrony).

    “Notably, this paradigm does not entail providing participants with any shared stimulus or task (cf. [49, 50, 51]), thereby minimizing the likelihood of synchrony arising from common external input, that is, stimulus‐driven synchrony [52, 53].”

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Authors
Schilbach, L., & Redcay, E.
Affiliations
  • Düsseldorf University Hospital (DE)
  • University of Maryland, College Park (US)
Venue
Annual Review of Psychology
Published
2025-01-17
Volume
76
Issue
1
Pages
883-911
ISSN
  • 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2085
OpenAlex
W4403678592
Cited by
71
References
181
Citations by year
2026: 41 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 3
FWCI
6.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH107441, R01MH112517, R01MH125370)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
Keywords
neuronal synchronization, social interaction, social coordination, social learning, social communication, psychopathology
MeSH terms
Social Interaction, Brain, Humans

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