Summary

New in JNeurosci , Pyry Heikkinen and colleagues, from the University of Helsinki, explored how emotional meaning influences the way the human brain prioritizes information during naturally spoken conversations in a cocktail party setting. The researchers compared the brain activity of 32 people as the participants saw and heard two types of conversations with another dialogue occurring concurrently. One conversational context involved exchanging emotionally meaningful information, while the other involved exchanging more neutral information.

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