Psychology & Psychiatry
Ability to recognise expression tied to listening and emotion
West Australian researchers have developed two new tests that examine a typical person's ability to recognise basic facial expressions.
Jan 6, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Face lab psychologists develop average face of Doctor Who
Millions of Dr Who fans are set to be gripped as the latest incarnation of the famous Time Lord is unveiled on Christmas Day.
Dec 24, 2013
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Genetics
Study maps genetic markers of brain development in people with Williams syndrome
Establishing links between genes, the brain and human behavior is a central issue in cognitive neuroscience research, but studying how genes influence cognitive abilities and behavior as the brain develops from childhood ...
Nov 28, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Manipulative and empathetic people both adept at reading emotions
(Medical Xpress)—People shouldn't assume that someone who can easily read their feelings always has their best interests at heart.
Oct 28, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Seeing' faces through touch
Our sense of touch can contribute to our ability to perceive faces, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Sep 4, 2013
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Autism spectrum disorders
Making the brain take notice of faces in autism
Difficulty in registering and responding to the facial expressions of other people is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Relatedly, functional imaging studies have shown that individuals with ASD display altered ...
Aug 15, 2013
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Autism spectrum disorders
New software concept may help with autism
Assistive learning software to help autistic children recognise emotions from facial expressions recently won a UniServices prize in the annual Spark Ideas Challenge.
Jul 5, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Seeing happiness in ambiguous facial expressions reduces aggressive behaviour, study finds
(Medical Xpress)—Encouraging young people at high-risk of criminal offending and delinquency to see happiness rather than anger in facial expressions results in a decrease in their levels of anger and aggression, new research ...
Mar 27, 2013
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Neuroscience
Difficulty in recognizing faces in autism linked to performance in a group of neurons
Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered a brain anomaly that explains why some people diagnosed with autism cannot easily recognize faces—a deficit linked to the impairments in social ...
Mar 18, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Face values: Ability to recognize emotions in others impaired by AIDS
People with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion than non-infected people finds a study published in the launch edition of BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Psychology. Reduction in their ability to recognise ...
Feb 26, 2013
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