http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but also in the relationship of the eyes and mouth of the beholden. The distance between a woman's eyes and the distance between her eyes and her mouth are key factors in determining how attractive she is to others, according to new psychology research from the University of California, San Diego and the University of Toronto. http://www.physorg.com/news180195066.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:30:04 EST news180195066 "Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions. http://www.physorg.com/news179170846.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:42:02 EST news179170846 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women. http://www.physorg.com/news176055134.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:12:45 EST news176055134 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research suggests the old saying commonly told to husbands-to-be is true, that if you want to know what your wife will look like, look at her mother. http://www.physorg.com/news175937114.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:28:29 EST news175937114 Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provides the first evidence that human infants are able to correctly match different kinds of vocalizations to different species. http://www.physorg.com/news175188811.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:37:09 EST news175188811 Criminals are having a harder time hiding their faces, thanks to new software that helps witnesses recreate and recognize suspects using principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics. http://www.physorg.com/news173973620.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:01:05 EST news173973620 Subliminal messaging is most effective when the message being conveyed is negative, according to new research. http://www.physorg.com/news173346511.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:49:01 EST news173346511 Identifying a face can be difficult when that face is shown for only a fraction of a second. However, young adults have a marked advantage over elderly people in these conditions. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience found indications that elderly people have reduced perception speed. http://www.physorg.com/news171657769.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:00:02 EST news171657769 (PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to potential mates, women may be as complicated as men claim they are, according to psychologists. http://www.physorg.com/news170331327.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:15:58 EST news170331327 A chimp's attention is captured by faces more effectively than by bananas. A series of experiments described in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology suggests that the apes are wired to respond to faces in a similar manner to humans. http://www.physorg.com/news167548374.html Biology Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:13:57 EST news167548374 When the 2,800-year-old mummy of an Egyptian court singer went on display at Chicago's Oriental Institute in February, Emily Teeter, the curator, wished she had a way for visitors to see the young woman's face so they could better understand her. http://www.physorg.com/news165578523.html Other Sciences Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:02 EST news165578523 (PhysOrg.com) -- Our tendency to see people and faces as individuals may explain why we are such experts at recognizing them, new research indicates. This approach can be learned and applied to other objects as well. http://www.physorg.com/news165170630.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:44:33 EST news165170630 Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated for the first time rhesus monkeys and humans share a specific perceptual mechanism, configural perception, for discriminating among the numerous faces they encounter daily. The study, reported in the June 25 online issue of Current Biology, provides insight into the evolution of the critical human social skill of facial recognition, which enables us to form relationships and interact appropriately with others. http://www.physorg.com/news165152366.html Biology Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:39:56 EST news165152366 Our tendency to see people and faces as individuals may explain why we are such experts at recognizing them, new research indicates. This approach can be learned and applied to other objects as well. http://www.physorg.com/news164385506.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:10:01 EST news164385506 It is well known that people use head motion during conversation to convey a range of meanings and emotions, and that women use more active head motion when conversing with each other than men use when they talk with each other. http://www.physorg.com/news162451415.html Medicine & Health Mon, 25 May 2009 06:24:07 EST news162451415 Some people say they never forget a face, a claim now bolstered by psychologists at Harvard University who've discovered a group they call "super-recognizers": those who can easily recognize someone they met in passing, even many years later. http://www.physorg.com/news161968641.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 May 2009 16:17:39 EST news161968641 A research project led by Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya at Goldsmiths, University of London has shown that it is possible to influence emotional evaluation of visual stimuli by listening to musical excerpts before the evaluation. http://www.physorg.com/news160850020.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 17:34:36 EST news160850020 (AP) -- When Connie Culp heard a little kid call her a monster because of the shotgun blast that left her face horribly disfigured, she pulled out her driver's license to show the child what she used to look like. Years later, sporting the nation's first surgically attached face, she's stepped forward to show the rest of the world what she looks like now. http://www.physorg.com/news160805144.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 05:06:16 EST news160805144 The creators of the EFIT-V forensic facial composite software describe how it works and recent successes with police services in the UK in the current issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. http://www.physorg.com/news160387592.html Technology Fri, 01 May 2009 09:06:57 EST news160387592 Surgeons in Boston have performed the second-ever partial face transplant in the United States, replacing some 80 percent of a disfigured man's face. http://www.physorg.com/news158586870.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:55:07 EST news158586870 (PhysOrg.com) -- Already Charles Darwin investigated facial expressions of monkeys in order to find out how closely related humans and monkeys really are. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have now shown that rhesus monkeys and humans employ the same strategies to process faces of conspecifics: both species look first at the eyes of conspecifics, whereas for non-conspecific faces they let their gaze wander over the whole face. http://www.physorg.com/news155234440.html Biology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:41:21 EST news155234440 (PhysOrg.com) -- To recognize faces in a crowd, the brain employs tiny eye movements called saccades and microsaccades to help us search for objects of interest. While researchers know that these movements are involuntary and vary in magnitude, they still do not fully understand how saccades and microsaccades work. http://www.physorg.com/news154327802.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:51:04 EST news154327802 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Sussex study shows that,without being consciously aware, we change our judgment of a person's attractiveness based on what they do, not their physical characteristics. http://www.physorg.com/news153757691.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:29:25 EST news153757691 Oxytocin, a hormone involved in child-birth and breast-feeding, helps people recognize familiar faces, according to new research in the January 7 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Study participants who had one dose of an oxytocin nasal spray showed improved recognition memory for faces, but not for inanimate objects. http://www.physorg.com/news150485262.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:27:42 EST news150485262 Michael J. Tarr, a Brown University scientist, and graduate student Adrian Nestor have discovered this color difference in an analysis of dozens of faces. They determined that men tend to have more reddish skin and greenish skin is more common for women. http://www.physorg.com/news147955343.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:42:23 EST news147955343 For the first time, scientists have been able to map the disruption in neural circuitry of people suffering from congenital prosopagnosia, sometimes known as face blindness, and have been able to offer a biological explanation for this intriguing disorder. http://www.physorg.com/news146840077.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:54:37 EST news146840077 Prejudice can be a powerful influence, biasing the way we think about and act towards ethnic minorities. Now, a new study suggests that this bias even influences what people believe the faces of members belonging to specific ethnic minority groups look like. http://www.physorg.com/news146832581.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:49:41 EST news146832581 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long known that women's preferences for masculine men change throughout their menstrual cycles. A new study from Indiana University's Kinsey Institute is the first to demonstrate differences in brain activity as women considered masculinized and feminized male faces and whether the person was a potential sexual partner. http://www.physorg.com/news145815519.html Medicine & Health Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:18:39 EST news145815519 (PhysOrg.com) -- In any social situation, we need to be aware of threats to our own safety from other people. That may be why our brains are better attuned to remembering the identity of angry faces over short periods of time. http://www.physorg.com/news144508402.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:13:22 EST news144508402 If Barack Obama had taken his mother's surname and kept his childhood nickname, American voters might literally see "Barry Dunham" as a quite different presidential candidate, a new study suggests. A name significantly changes our perception of someone's face and race, according to research in the journal, Perception. http://www.physorg.com/news144408474.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:27:54 EST news144408474