Synced Heartbeats During Stories, Vampire Bats’ Social Meals
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🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Cody Goff. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.9 | Today you learn about how people synchronize their heart rates when listening to a story and how vampire bats meet up |
| 0:15.2 | with friends for lunch. |
| 0:16.7 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:20.0 | Here's something surprising. |
| 0:21.8 | When people sing in a choir or see a play together, their |
| 0:25.4 | heartbeats tend to synchronize. Now, new research has found that the same thing can happen |
| 0:31.8 | even when people aren't in the same room. |
| 0:35.0 | Even cooler, this may serve as a window into consciousness itself. |
| 0:41.0 | Here's how the study began. |
| 0:43.0 | The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, |
| 0:47.0 | a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. |
| 0:52.0 | That's the first line of... which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. |
| 0:53.5 | That's the first line of 20,000 leagues under the sea, |
| 0:57.0 | a science fiction novel by Jules Vern. |
| 1:00.1 | Participants listens to the audiobook while researchers monitored their heart rates. |
| 1:05.0 | Even though the listeners were isolated, their hearts tended to follow the same general pattern. |
| 1:11.0 | They would beat faster at some points in the story and slower at others. |
| 1:15.6 | That's a big deal since past research on heart rate synchronization hasn't been able |
| 1:21.6 | to tell whether it's the activity itself that causes the effect |
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