Using MRI machines, they monitored exactly what was going on inside the brains of people telling and listening to stories.
And this is true for both storyteller and listener, a remarkable phenomenon known as “neurocoupling,” first described in 2010 by a group of neuroscientists at Princeton University led by psychologist Dr Uri Hasson. Using MRI machines, they monitored exactly what was going on inside the brains of people telling and listening to stories. They discovered that while a speaker was communicating to a listener, both of their brains showed very similar activity across widespread areas.