The team thinks this means that the cingulate cortex manages the social purpose and context of the facial gesture, which is ...

New research shows facial expressions are planned by the brain before movement, not automatic emotional reactions.

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

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

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part of the back-and-forth that allows us to understand each other's emotions ...

Lay presentations of research on emotions often make two claims. First, they assert that all humans develop the same set of core emotions. This claim is called the “basic emotion approach” (Ekman, ...