Cooperation articles from across Nature Portfolio

An fNIRS study examining brain activity during group creativity suggests that interbrain coupling in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex predicts group creativity, while interbrain coupling in the inferior frontal gyrus predicts herding.

Conversation is a primary means of social influence, but its effects on the brain aren’t well-understood. Here, the authors find evidence that people who are central in their social networks facilitate consensus-building conversations that align future brain activity.

A new study captures nearly the full repertoire of primate natural behaviour and reveals that highly distributed cortical activity maintains multifaceted dynamic social relationships.