How does your brain change with each story that you hear? How can storytelling shape your memories? In a two-part seminar, Uri Hasson explores how brain activity is shared between listeners of the same story, and how those shared neural responses are coupled to and shaped by the neural activity in the storyteller’s brain.

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Part One: How we communicate information across brains

Part Two: Storytelling and memories–how the act of storytelling shapes our minds