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The connection between the mind and the body

(The graphic illustration describes the research findings and shows that stories affect our heart rate and bind us together. The researchers found that attention to narratives may synchronize heart rate fluctuations between different individuals. Cardiac synchronization predicts memory and cannot be explained by breathing) Credit: Perez and Madsen et al./Cell Reports

Heart rate synchronization when listening to stories together

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Heart rate synchronization occurs, even when subjects are listening to a story alone, when they are attentive to certain points in the story
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