Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...
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, ...
Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Klaus Vedfelt—Getty Images, Tim Robberts—Getty Images, Kelvin Murray—Getty Images, Robert Recker—Getty Images, Howard Kingsnorth—Getty ...
Facial expressions offer potent displays of emotions and to a large extent are universally understood. Yet the social context or framing around an expression is important and can color how we ...
Connor Tom Keating receives funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC). Jennifer Cook has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under ...