You May Feel “On The Same Wavelength” As Someone, But Can We Engineer Brains To Synchronize? It May Actually Be Possible

Photo credit: Anthony DeMarino via Unsplash. Article by Benjamin Taub. IFLScience – July 2, 2026. Research article:  Trends in Cognitive Science.

If you want to get on the same wavelength as another person, just have a conversation about ice cream. Sounds pretty simple, but new research shows that connecting over a shared love of frozen desserts may help people to synchronize their brainwaves. “One strategy that people used was thinking about the same thing – and ice cream came up all the time,” said Suzane Dikker, who has spent the past decade researching how to engineer moments of synchrony. “If you’re going to write about this at all, just write that we all need more ice cream in the world, and war will be over,” she jokingly told IFLScience. […]

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