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Annual Review of Psychology

Volume 76, 2025

Synchrony Across Brains

Abstract

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.

Keyword(s): behavioral synchrony, interpersonal neural synchrony, second-person neuroscience, social interaction
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