Facial expressions may appear spontaneous, but new research shows the brain begins preparing them long before the face ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

Emotion is a complex state that integrates people′s feelings, thoughts and behaviors, and facial expression is one of the most direct signals to communicate their innermost thoughts. Therefore, facial ...

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

Facial expressions of emotion—such as the joyful smile you might display when encountering a friend or your angry frown when being cut off in traffic—are powerful social signals that are able to evoke ...

Researchers have developed a new method to analyze facial expressions, as part of efforts to better understand animal communication. Researchers have developed a new method to analyse facial ...

Research led by UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Jefferson Ortega revealed that 30% of people take a more simplistic approach than using both facial expressions and context — depending on the ambiguity — to ...