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    Brain scans reveal that friends really are on the same wavelength

    by Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Jan 31, 2018 3 minutes

    What can an astronaut, baby sloths, a sentimental music video and an MRI scanner reveal about your friends? Quite a lot, a new study reveals.

    Researchers put 42 business school students in an MRI machine and showed them a series of 14 videos. As they watched the clips, the scanner recorded the activity in their brains.

    Those patterns could be used to predict which students were friends and which were merely classmates, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

    "Neural similarity

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