The brain interprets what we see in our environment even the expressions of other people. Researchers have revealed what part of the brain is responsible for recognizing people's facial expression.

You don’t have to be Jim Carrey to recognize that the human face is amazingly elastic and expressive. We can squint, flare our nostrils, purse our lips-yeah, it’s a lengthy list, and all of those ...

New work demonstrates how neural circuits in the brain and muscles of the face work together to respond physically to social cues When a baby smiles at you, it’s almost impossible not to smile back.

A team from Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology aimed to find out whether six basic facial expressions differing in intensity are challenging for young people with autism to recognise.

Lisa Feldman Barrett’s recent essay in The New York Times, “What Faces Can’t Tell Us,” seeks to undermine the science showing universality in the interpretation of facial expressions. In her eyes, ...

Recognizingfacial expressions is something that we do naturally, without anythought. However, whenever we smile or frown, or express any numberof emotions using our faces, we move a large number of ...

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Kathleen Bogart has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Moebius Syndrome Foundation. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Moebius Syndrome Foundation.