Every time we show facial gestures, it feels effortless, but the brain is quietly coordinating an intricate performance.

W e all subtly mirror the facial expressions of the people around us, smiling when they smile, furrowing our brows in concert ...

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

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

New research suggests that the emotional content of a facial expression influences how well observers can predict social ...

The human face is powered, depending on how you count them, by between 23 and 43 muscles, many of which attach to the skin, serving no obvious function for survival. An alien examining a human ...

Women’s real human faces are showing up on screen more often. I’d like to officially declare the dawn of a new era.

We use facial expression to help recall an emotion, researchers say. A new study shows that in order to recall an emotion (positive or negative) we “re-enact” the motor sequence of the facial ...