When Eyes Meet, Brains Get to Work

When Eyes Meet, Brains Get to Work
The interactions of two individual minds as they dynamically and reciprocally extract information from each other’s eyes are difficult to tackle. Christine Bird/Shutterstock
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New research charts the surprisingly widespread response in multiple brain areas when the eyes of two individuals meet and social gaze interaction happens.

“There are strong robust signals in the brain that are signatures of an interactive social gaze,” says Steve Chang, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Yale University, a member of the Wu-Tsai Institute and the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, and the senior author of the study.