I love it when science discovers via technology and study that something incredibly mysterious is going on and are then forced to speculate how those findings could possibly be so mind-bending, and how or why the actual mechanics of the discovery remain largely unknown!

Here’s an example of science weighing in on some discoveries made about the deep connections that sometimes occur between people – and how these discoveries have actually made the phenomenon more mysterious!:

Wired Science News for Your Neurons

Good Connection Really Does Lead to Mind Meld

By Brandon Keim

When two people experience a deep connection, they’re informally described as being on the same wavelength. There may be neurological truth to that.

Brain scans of a speaker and listener showed their neural activity synchronizing during storytelling. The stronger their reported connection, the closer the coupling.

The experiment was the first to use fMRI, which measures blood flow changes in the brain, on two people as they talked. Different brain regions have been linked to both speaking and listening, but “the ongoing interaction between the two systems during everyday communication remains largely unknown,” wrote Princeton University neuroscientists Greg Stephens and Uri Hasson in the July 27 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

They found that speaking and listening used common rather than separate neural subsystems inside each brain. Even more striking was an overlap between the brains of speaker and listener. When post-scan interviews found that stories had resonated, scans showed a complex interplay of neural call and response, as if language were a wire between test subjects’ brains…

Read More at Wired, here.

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