Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task
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Whether great minds think alike is up for debate, but the collaborating minds of two people working on a shared task process information alike, according to a study published November 25th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Denise Moerel and colleagues from Western Sydney University in Australia.
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