New Delhi, (PTI) Brain activity in people engaged in online interactions, such as over Zoom, was substantially suppressed compared to that in people having face-to-face conversations, researchers have found.
Our brains are finely tuned to process dynamic facial cues, which are a primary source of social information, during real in-person encounters, the researchers from Yale University said.
“In this study, we find that the social systems of the human brain are more active during real live in-person encounters than on Zoom, which appears to be an impoverished social communication system relative to in-person conditions,” said Joy Hirsch, professor of comparative medicine and neuroscience, and senior author of the study published in the journal Imaging Neuroscience.
