New research suggests that the emotional content of a facial expression influences how well observers can predict social ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Facial mimicry refers to automatic copying of another person’s facial expressions. When one person smiles, a listener may ...

Source: Photo elements from Cameron Ritchie and Brandon Morrison — Creative Commons License I was working on an attention exercise with my young Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Ranger. A colleague ...

China has reportedly developed a robot that can respond with natural human facial expressions. The robot was created by Liu Xiaofeng, a professor at Hohai University in Jiangsu Province, and his ...

Osaka, Japan – Robots able to display human emotion have long been a mainstay of science fiction stories. Now, Japanese researchers have been studying the mechanical details of real human facial ...

There’s a lot we don’t know about gorillas. This is due to the lack of legal dead gorillas to dissect. And that means many details of our shared family tree remain unclear. For instance, we used to ...