Summary Of Uri Hasson's Speech

Uri Hasson used the following analogy: Uri used five different listeners and scanned their brains before listening to a story. In each listener, their brain wave patterns are going up and down but the responses are very different and not in sync. Immediately when the story began all subjects locked into the story and the brain wave pattern changed going up and down in similar ways across all the listeners. Neural entrainment is a process where the brain response become locked in and aligned with the sounds of speech. As sound waves of the speaker’s speech reach the listener’s brain they replicate the speaker’s brain pattern.

The brain responses in the listeners’ brain while listening to a story were actually coupled to and similar to the brain responses observed in the speaker’s brain while telling a story. Hasson discovered that the complex patterns within the listener actually came from the speaker’s brain. The stronger the similarity between the listener’s brain and the speaker’s brain the better the communication.

The ability to communicate relies most of all on common ground. For example, common ground speakers and audiences share values, beliefs, concerns, experiences, background, education, prior knowledge, cultural, and social …show more content…
Brain coupling influences the actions of individuals leading to joint behavior that could not emerge in isolation and can shape our world. It is true, two brains are better than one! Brain to brain coupling is an important vehicle for conveying information and is especially important in education. In the classroom, the more engaged students are with their teacher and classmates their brains sync producing cooperative behavior that increases learning potential. The children are our future and we need to develop creative thinkers and problem solvers to compete in our ever-advancing technological