Scientists claim to have figured out how to make mice more social. They’ve taken agitated fur buddies who were formerly aggressive or standoffish toward one another and turned them into lifelong ...

Dogs are said to be the oldest animals to have lived with humans, and have been loved as pets since ancient times. A research team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin have shown that synchronization emerges between brains when making music together, and even when musicians play different ...

Scientists have previously shown that when one animal watches another performing a motor task, such as reaching for food, mirror neurons in the motor cortex of the observer's brain start firing as ...

The rhythms of brainwaves between two people taking part in a conversation begin to match each other. This is the conclusion of a study published in the magazine Scientific Reports, led by the Basque ...

Anyone who has ever played in an orchestra will be familiar with the phenomenon: the impulse for one’s own actions does not seem to come from one’s own mind alone, but rather seems to be controlled by ...

A study in Advanced Science found that human and dog brains synchronize during mutual gazing and petting, with increased synchronization over time. Dogs with autism-like social impairments lost this ...