How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another

Our brain has a host of regions, termed the “action-observation network,” that’s sparked when we watch others do something in our “motor repertoire”

we had wondered how mentalising ability affected our appreciation of jokes.

setting. There is something about everyone being involved in the same emotion that is important.

What they found instead, to their initial chagrin, was that our prefrontal cortices almost always slow down and grow quieter when we interact with others.