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This is partially due to the scale of neural involvements in team activities, spanning the millisecond oscillations in individual brains to the minutes\/hours performance behaviors of the team. We have used intermediate neurodynamic representations to show that healthcare teams enter persistent (50\u2013100 s) neurodynamic states when they encounter and resolve uncertainty while managing simulated patients. Each of the second symbols was developed situating the electroencephalogram (EEG) power of each team member in the contexts of those of other team members and the task. These representations were acquired from EEG headsets with 19 recording electrodes for each of the 1\u201340 Hz frequencies. Estimates of the information in each symbol stream were calculated from a 60 s moving window of Shannon entropy that was updated each second, providing a quantitative neurodynamic history of the team\u2019s performance. 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