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

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

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

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, ...

In our increasingly digital world, the emergence of applications designed to detect and track micro-expressions is gaining momentum. These innovative tools have the potential to radically transform ...

Women’s real human faces are showing up on screen more often. I’d like to officially declare the dawn of a new era.