Brain Region Active During Mutual Understanding (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Brain Region Active During Mutual Understanding

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As two people conversing rely more and more on previously shared concepts, the same area of their brains -- the right superior temporal gyrus -- becomes more active (blue is activity in communicator, orange is activity in interpreter). This suggests that this brain region is key to mutual understanding as people continually update their shared understanding of the context of the conversation to improve mutual understanding.

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Arjen Stolk, UC Berkeley

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