Imagine two strangers meeting for the first time. As they talk, something remarkable happens: they start mirroring each other’s gestures, their speech rhythms align, and even their heart rates subtly ...

The relationship with our babies can often be seen as a dance—a give-and-take of eye contact, touch, gestures, and emotions between parent and child. This metaphorical dance finds its scientific ...

Neuroscientists usually investigate one brain at a time. They observe how neurons fire as a person reads certain words, for example, or plays a video game. As social animals, however, those same ...