Synced Heartbeats During Stories, Vampire Bats’ Social Meals

Learn about how people synchronize their heart rates when listening to a story; and vampire bats meeting up for meals.

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People synchronize their heart rates when listening to a story, even when they're in different places by Grant Currin

• When Choirs Sing, Many Hearts Beat As One. (2013, July 10). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/07/09/200390454/when-choirs-sing-many-hearts-beat-as-one
• UCL. (2017, November 17). Audience members’ hearts beat together at the theatre. UCL Psychology and Language Sciences. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/news/2017/nov/audience-members-hearts-beat-together-theatre
• Pérez, P., Madsen, J., Banellis, L., Türker, B., Raimondo, F., Perlbarg, V., Valente, M., Niérat, M.-C., Puybasset, L., Naccache, L., Similowski, T., Cruse, D., Parra, L. C., & Sitt, J. D. (2021). Conscious processing of narrative stimuli synchronizes heart rate between individuals. Cell Reports, 36(11), 109692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109692
• Tibi Puiu. (2021, September 14). Our heart rates synchronize when closely listening to the same stories. ZME Science; ZME Science. https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/mind-and-brain/our-heart-rates-synchronize-when-closely-listening-to-the-same-stories/
• The Project Gutenberg E-text of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (slightly abridged), by Jules Verne. (2016). Gutenberg.org. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/164/164-h/164-h.htm

Vampire bats meet up with friends for lunch by Grant Currin

• Vampire bats may coordinate with “friends” over a bite to eat. (2021, September 23). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/928884
• Ripperger, S. P., & Carter, G. G. (2021). Social foraging in vampire bats is predicted by long-term cooperative relationships. PLOS Biology, 19(9), e3001366. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001366
• Spivack, E. (2021, September 28). Vampire bats rendezvous with their friends when dining out. Popular Science. https://www.popsci.com/animals/vampire-bats-eat-together/
• Vampire bat adoption episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/vampire-bats-adopt-babies-too/

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