ArticleiScience2025
Delta-band audience brain synchrony tracks engagement with live and recorded dance.
Article in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Heart rate synchrony as a marker of real-world social engagement.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Testing the causal relationship between interpersonal closeness and inter-brain synchrony.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- From lab to concert hall: effects of live performance on neural-acoustic phase-locking and engagement.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Individual abilities to estimate levels of movement synchrony predict action observation network activation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Evolutionary theories claim that dance and music have evolved as collective rituals for social bonding and signaling. Yet, neuroscientific studies of these art forms typically involve people watching video or sound recordings alone in a laboratory. Across three live performances of a dance choreography, we simultaneously measured real-time dynamics between the brains of up to 23 audience members using mobile wet-electrode EEG. Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) in the delta band (1-4 Hz) was highest when performers directly interacted with audience members (breaking the fourth wall) and varied systematically with the dancers' movements and artistically predicted and actual continuous engagement. In follow-up studies using video recordings of the performance, we show that audience brain synchrony and engagement are highest when dance is experienced live and together. Our study shows that the ancient social functions of the performing arts are preserved in engagement with contemporary dance.
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