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

Every time we smile, grimace, or flash a quick look of surprise, it feels effortless, but the brain is quietly coordinating ...

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 ...

This 1936 portrait by Dorothea Lange shows Florence Owens Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." Source: Dorothea Lange/Public Domain Photographers and ...

Imagine sitting across from someone describing two movies to you. You listen attentively, trying to decide which one ...

A startup at CES demonstrates a haptic wristband that pairs with Meta's smart glasses, offering unique accessibility features by decoding facial expressions.

When I started horse riding lessons at the age of eight, I was told that if a horse had its ears forward that was a good sign, and if horse had its ears back it wasn’t happy. Those riding lessons ...