Music not only brings people closer, it may also sync their brains! The brain waves of two musicians synchronise when they are performing duet even when playing different voices, a new study has found.
A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin used electrodes to record the brain waves of 16 pairs of guitarists while they played a sequence from “Sonata in G Major” by Christian Gottlieb Scheidler.
In 60 trials each, the pairs of musicians showed coordinated brain oscillations – or matching rhythms of neural activity – in regions of the brain associated with social cognition and music production, researchers said.
“When people coordinate their own actions, small networks between brain regions are formed,” study researcher Johanna Sanger said.
“But we also observed similar network properties between the brains of the individual players, especially when mutual coordination is very important; for example at the joint onset of a piece of music,” she said.
The team believes people’s brain waves might also synchronise during other types of actions, such as during sports games. The study was published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
In 60 trials each, the pairs of musicians showed coordinated brain oscillations – or matching rhythms of neural activity – in regions of the brain associated with social cognition and music production, researchers said.
“When people coordinate their own actions, small networks between brain regions are formed,” study researcher Johanna Sanger said.
“But we also observed similar network properties between the brains of the individual players, especially when mutual coordination is very important; for example at the joint onset of a piece of music,” she said.
The team believes people’s brain waves might also synchronise during other types of actions, such as during sports games. The study was published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
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