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

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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 ...

Cats can use hundreds of facial expressions to communicate, a new study reveals. Over the course of a year, researchers recorded a total of 276 distinct facial expressions used among a colony of 50 ...

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

The team thinks this means that the cingulate cortex manages the social purpose and context of the facial gesture, which is ...

Researchers found that autistic and non-autistic people move their faces differently when expressing emotions like anger, ...

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