When two people click in a conversation, they are said to have a meeting of minds. Now science has proven the same.
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"We found that the participants' brains became intimately coupled during the course of the 'conversation', with the responses in the listener's brain mirroring those in the speaker's," New Scientist quoted Uri Hasson, of Princeton University, as saying.
Hasson's team monitored the strength of this coupling by measuring the extent of the pattern overlap. Listeners with the best overlap were also judged to be the best at retelling the tale.
"The more similar our brain patterns during a conversation, the better we understand each other," Hasson said.
However, there was no match between the brain patterns of the storyteller and the listeners when they heard the same story in Russian, a language they didn't understand.
The study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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