Human connection is not only psychological, but physiological too
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Twins Bridgette and Paula Powers have gone viral for the way they speak in unison, using the same gestures and words.
Brains encode language by matching words to patterns of activity. Large language models can do the same thing.
The synchronisation involved in music and dance may be the “active ingredient” in their social bonding effects.
Synchronizing your daily activities to your circadian rhythm could help you improve your performance on a variety of cognitive tasks − and even influence diagnosis of cognitive disorders.
Synchrony is ubiquitous throughout the universe. But physicists’ equations predicted there could also be erratic exceptions marching to their own beat. Now they’ve been spotted in firefly swarms.
Psychology researchers know what kinds of behavior enhance feelings of social connection.
Governments need to think about global ways agricultural policies may affect the stability of the food system as a whole, beyond locally focused efforts to increase resilience in production.
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