edit: maybe not "without physical copresence"
I believe something similar happens when musicians improvise/jam, especially Jazz:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I believe something similar happens when musicians improvise/jam, especially Jazz:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I think the point of studies like this using a video game, though, is that it's a lot more reproducible.