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. A laboratory in the UAE has built what it says is the world's first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff in shopping malls. http://www.physorg.com/news176449854.html Electronics Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:20:02 EST news176449854 Researchers at the University of York have identified a part of the brain that responds to both facial and vocal expressions of emotion. http://www.physorg.com/news176398397.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:34:06 EST news176398397 (PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT`s SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America`s Electronics Research Lab. http://www.physorg.com/news176294342.html Technology Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:39:40 EST news176294342 Computer scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are working on the development of an efficient and intelligent facial expression recognition system. The system is capable of locating the face region using derivative-based filtering and recognizing facial expressions using boosting classifier. The portable device is being developed to help autistic children understand the emotions of surrounding people. http://www.physorg.com/news175174583.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:37:32 EST news175174583 Juvenile delinquency may be a result of misunderstood social cues. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health shows that male juvenile delinquents frequently misinterpret facial expressions of disgust as anger, providing a possible cause for their aggressive behaviour. http://www.physorg.com/news172434299.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:25:39 EST news172434299 (PhysOrg.com) -- Folk wisdom usually has it that "seeing is believing," but new research suggests that "believing is seeing," too - at least when it comes to perceiving other people's emotions. http://www.physorg.com/news171125758.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:57:06 EST news171125758 (PhysOrg.com) -- People with psoriasis - an often distressing dermatological condition that causes lesions and red scaly patches on the skin - are less likely to react to looks of disgust by others than people without the condition, new research has found. http://www.physorg.com/news170597428.html Medicine & Health Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:19:23 EST news170597428 (PhysOrg.com) -- People from East Asia tend to have a tougher time than those from European countries telling the difference between a face that looks fearful versus surprised, disgusted versus angry, and now a new report published online on August 13th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, explains why. Rather than scanning evenly across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fixate their attention on the eyes. http://www.physorg.com/news169385578.html Medicine & Health Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:33:41 EST news169385578 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal brain activity when looking at facial expressions of others. The findings, which appear in the current issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, confirms that alcoholics suffer from abnormalities in parts of the brain that control emotional perception and memory. http://www.physorg.com/news169222002.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:07:06 EST news169222002 Louis Armstrong sang, "When you're smilin', the whole world smiles with you." Romantics everywhere may be surprised to learn that psychological research has proven this sentiment to be true - merely seeing a smile (or a frown, for that matter) will activate the muscles in our face that make that expression, even if we are unaware of it. Now, according to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, simply reading certain words may also have the same effect. http://www.physorg.com/news168858742.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:12:53 EST news168858742 Robots that can cook, dance to Michael Jackson songs or guide the blind are among the gadgets aimed at helping humans cope with illnesses on display in Spain at one of the world's biggest annual gatherings of new technology enthusiasts. http://www.physorg.com/news168412385.html Electronics Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:13:46 EST news168412385 Everyday human interaction is not what you would call perfect, so what if there was a third party added to the mix - like a metallic version of us? In a new article in Perspectives on Psychological Science, psychologist Neal J. Roese and computer scientist Eyal Amir from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign investigate what human-android interactions may be like 50 years into the future. http://www.physorg.com/news166982704.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:10:02 EST news166982704 (PhysOrg.com) -- A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The UC San Diego researchers used machine learning to `empower` their robot to learn to make realistic facial expressions. http://www.physorg.com/news166289677.html Technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:35:37 EST news166289677 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have developed a new way of cloning facial expressions during live conversations to help us better understand what influences our behaviour when we communicate with others. http://www.physorg.com/news163061105.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:45:17 EST news163061105 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Glasgow have discovered that it takes the brain just 200 milliseconds to gather most of the information it needs from a facial expression to determine a person`s emotional state. http://www.physorg.com/news162567915.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 14:45:41 EST news162567915 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 The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it's slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship. http://www.physorg.com/news158151870.html Electronics Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:05:53 EST news158151870 Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. Now, an NIH-funded study in 2-year-olds with the social deficit disorder suggests why they might find mouths so attractive: lip-sync -the exact match of lip motion and speech sound. Such audiovisual synchrony preoccupied toddlers who have autism, while their unaffected peers focused on socially meaningful movements of the human body, such as gestures and facial expressions. http://www.physorg.com/news157558974.html Medicine & Health Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:23:26 EST news157558974 Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk. http://www.physorg.com/news156406932.html Electronics Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:22:59 EST news156406932 A wink, a smile or a raised eyebrow could soon change the music on your iPod or start up the washing machine, thanks to a new Japanese gadget. http://www.physorg.com/news155728914.html Electronics Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:03:05 EST news155728914 When threatened, many animals release chemicals as a warning signal to members of their own species, who in turn react to the signals and take action. Research by Rice University psychologist Denise Chen suggests a similar phenomenon occurs in humans. Given that more than one sense is typically involved when humans perceive information, Chen studied whether the smell of fear facilitates humans' other stronger senses. http://www.physorg.com/news155571328.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:23:10 EST news155571328 Researchers at Arizona State University show that having a more flexible approach to resolving an acute conflict interaction results in more frustration and anger. These are among the findings that Danielle Roubinov, an ASU doctoral student in clinical psychology, will present at the American Psychosomatic Society Annual Meeting on March 4. Roubinov and two other ASU researchers observed a sample of 65 undergraduate students role-playing a stressful task with a "neighbor" who was portrayed by a research assistant. http://www.physorg.com/news155457694.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:42:04 EST news155457694 (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 Negative emotional facial expressions dominate in the interplay with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. This has been shown in previous research and has now been confirmed in a dissertation from the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, in Sweden. The dissertation is based on video-recorded clinical interviews carried out by psychologists. http://www.physorg.com/news154622850.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:48:51 EST news154622850 Hollywood stars of a certain age take note: Research at Berkeley Lab suggests that a protein linked to the spread of several major human cancers may also hold great potential for the elimination of wrinkles and the rejuvenation of the skin. If this promise bears fruit, the protein, called RHAMM, could one day replace injections with neurotoxins that carry such unpleasant side-effects as muscle paralysis and loss of facial expressions. http://www.physorg.com/news153586624.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:58:07 EST news153586624 People with a genetic condition called Williams syndrome are famously gregarious. Scientists, looking carefully at brain function in individuals with Williams syndrome, think they may know why this is so. The researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine showed that parts of a particular brain region known as the amygdala react more powerfully in Williams syndrome patients than in developmentally normal subjects - or in subjects with delays in development not caused by Williams syndrome - when exposed to facial expressions conveying positive emotions. http://www.physorg.com/news152299739.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:33:05 EST news152299739 Non-verbal communication, in the form of facial expressions, may be impaired in people with schizophrenia. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions have shown that deficits in non-verbal expressivity in schizophrenia are linked to poor social skills and an unawareness of the thoughts and intentions of others. http://www.physorg.com/news151911329.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:36:07 EST news151911329 Facial expressions of emotion are hardwired into our genes, according to a study published today in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The research suggests that facial expressions of emotion are innate rather than a product of cultural learning. The study is the first of its kind to demonstrate that sighted and blind individuals use the same facial expressions, producing the same facial muscle movements in response to specific emotional stimuli. http://www.physorg.com/news149750277.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:17:57 EST news149750277 It is well appreciated that facial expressions play a major role in non-verbal social communication among humans and other primates, because faces provide rapid access to information about the identity as well as the internal states and intentions of others. In his song, Mona Lisa, Nat King Cole reflected on the motivations for Mona Lisa's "mystic smile" and new data by scientists in Switzerland suggests that both the social context of a person's facial expression and certain facets of the viewer's personality could affect how our brain interprets the social meaning of someone else's smile or frown. http://www.physorg.com/news137214785.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:13:05 EST news137214785 New work at nexus of facial expression recognition research and automated tutoring A computer science Ph.D. student can turn his face into a remote control that speeds and slows video playback. The proof-of-concept demonstration is part of a larger project to use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers. http://www.physorg.com/news133590374.html Technology Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:26:14 EST news133590374