Synchrony Across Brains
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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
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2025-01-17
- Volume
- 76
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 883-911
- ISSN
- 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2085
- PMC
- PMC12668431
- 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
- hybrid
- doi.org
- 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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