Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Scientists found that dogs’ and humans’ brain activity can synchronize during genuine social interaction, especially when eye contact and touch are combined. In a study published in Advanced Science , researchers recorded the brain activity of dogs and their human partners at the same time. The first major finding was that genuine social interaction temporarily aligned activity in the human and dog brains. “It means that certain patterns of brain activity begin to fluctuate in a coordinated way while they are actively engaged with one another.” The human initiated and structured the interaction, while the dog adjusted its attention and brain activity to the human’s behavior.