ELSC Seminar Series

People frequently interpret the same information differently, based on their prior beliefs and views. This may occur in everyday settings, as when two friends are watching the same movie, but also in more consequential circumstances, such as when people interpret the same news differently based on their political views. In this talk, I will describe neuroimaging projects done in our lab showing that individuals interpreting the world in a similar manner are more synchronized in their brain responses. I will focus on neural synchronization in an in-group\out-group context, while trying to understand how this synchronization is related to our increasingly polarized social world.