🔬 Science Sep 9, 2026 · ETH Zurich

How does brain activity change as strangers become friends?

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How does brain activity change as strangers become friends?
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Researchers investigated the brain activity of younger and older people while they interacted—and the results are surprising.
What happens in the brain when two people engage in joint creative activity and build a new relationship with one another in the process? ETH Zurich cognitive scientist, Ryssa Moffat investigated this question. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Social Brain Sciences Lab within the Chair of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience.
Her study has now been published in the jo

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