Individuals often align their emotional states during conversation. Here, we reveal how such
emotional alignment is reflected in synchronization of brain activity across speakers and …

Speech provides a powerful means for sharing emotions. Here we implement novel
intersubject phase synchronization and whole-brain dynamic connectivity measures to show …

Sharing others' emotional states may facilitate understanding their intentions and actions.
Here we show that networks of brain areas “tick together” in participants who are viewing …

Verbal communication is a joint activity; however, speech production and comprehension
have primarily been analyzed as independent processes within the boundaries of individual …

Recent research has shown that the degree to which speakers and listeners exhibit similar
brain activity patterns during human linguistic interaction is correlated with communicative …

For successful communication, we need to understand the external world consistently with
others. This task requires sufficiently similar cognitive schemas or psychological …

Earlier studies have shown considerable intersubject synchronization of brain activity when
subjects watch the same movie or listen to the same story. Here we investigated the across …

Individuals often interpret the same event in different ways. How do personality traits
modulate brain activity evoked by a complex stimulus? Here we report results from a …

Narratives can synchronize neural and physiological signals between individuals, but the
relationship between these signals, and the underlying mechanism, is unclear. We …

Psychological theories of emotion often highlight the dynamic quality of the affective
experience, yet neuroimaging studies of affect have traditionally relied on static stimuli that …