This Is Your Brain on Zoom

Communicating virtually is not equivalent to face-to-face discussion, in ways we’re only beginning to understand.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Conversing in-person results in strong and complex neural signaling, but this is dramatically reduced when meetings take place virtually, with unknown consequences for the human psyche

• A Yale team used neuroimaging technologies to study interactions between two people in real time, face-to-face as well as conversations on the video confe…