Engaged listeners: shared neural processing of powerful political speeches

摘要: Powerful speeches can captivate audiences, whereas weaker fail to engage their listeners. What is happening in the brains of a captivated audience? Here, we assess audience-wide functional brain dynamics during listening varying rhetorical quality. The were given by German politicians and evaluated as rhetorically powerful or weak. Listening each induced similar neural response time courses ,a s measured inter-subject correlation analysis, widespread regions involved spoken language processing. Crucially, alignment course across listeners was stronger for speeches, especially bilateral superior temporal gyri medial prefrontal cortex. Thus, group are more coupled other, suggesting that