Brain Sync Loss in Conflict | MindLAB Neuroscience
Inter-Brain Synchronization Loss During Conflict: Why High-Conflict People Can’t “Read the Room” Two people sit across from each other, both speaking, neither connecting. Inter-brain synchronization — the measurable neural coupling between two people during conversation — collapses during conflict, and it does so in a pattern that contradicts everything we assume about arguments. The brain does not ramp up shared-processing circuits to fight harder. It powers them down. Hyperscanning research using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) now shows that the very regions responsible for understanding another person’s perspective deactivate during disagreements — except for one surprising exception that reveals how the brain attempts to maintain connection even as everything else shuts off. ...
