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

Researchers have designed a robot capable of displaying realistic lip movements, as used by humans in speech and singing.

That’s why in the future, she thinks, neural prostheses meant for patients with a stroke or paralysis will decode facial ...

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

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

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

Autistic and non-autistic people express emotions differently through their facial movements, according to a new study, which ...

After three years of Covid-era masking, some Japanese people feel their facial expressions are a bit rusty. Enter Keiko Kawano, smile instructor. By Hisako Ueno and Mike Ives Hisako Ueno reported from ...