Experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across
individuals, a research team at Aalto University and Turku PET
Centre in Finland has revealed. Human emotions are highly
contagious. Seeing others' emotional expressions such as smiles
triggers often the corresponding emotional response in the
observer. Such synchronization of emotional states across
individuals may support social interaction: When all group
members share a common emotional state, their brains and bodies
process the environment in a similar fashion. Researchers at
Aalto University and Turku PET Centre have now found that
feeling strong emotions makes different individuals' brain
activity literally synchronous. The results revealed that
especially feeling strong unpleasant emotions synchronized
brain's emotion processing networks in the frontal and midline
regions. On the contrary, experiencing highly arousing events
synchronized activity in the networks supporting vision,
attention and sense of touch. - Category: Science & Techno