Making contact: Practical kinds for hyperscanning in psychotherapy
Nicolás Hinrichs
In The Brain Abstracted , Mazviita Chirimuuta calls for vigilant awareness of how neuroscientists simplify complex realities, warning that every explanatory gain from abstraction comes at the cost of potential distortion. In this paper, I apply and extend Chirimuuta’s framework by considering the case of hyperscanning in psychotherapy, i.e., the simultaneous recording of the therapist’s and patient’s brain activity. This application demonstrates three points about the simplification of inter-bra