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

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 ...

A study challenges the long-held view that facial mimicry functions primarily as a social tool for politeness or empathy, ...

Facial mimicry refers to automatic copying of another person’s facial expressions. When one person smiles, a listener may ...

Researchers have described different emotional facial expressions for mice. Similar to humans, the face of a mouse looks completely different when it tastes something sweet or bitter, or when it ...

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

Cats have 276 distinct facial expressions, a discovery that turns on its head the popular belief that our pet felines are aloof and just not that into us. In fact, cats likely evolved these various ...