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Male or female? Coloring provides gender cues

Male or female? Coloring provides gender cues

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Our brain is wired to identify gender based on facial cues and coloring, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vision. Psychology Professor Frédéric Gosselin and his Université de Mon ...





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First live 'cloning' of faces challenges assumptions about human behavior

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(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 ...


Race has little effect on people's ability to spot family resemblances

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have ample evidence that individuals use a variety of cues to identify their own kin. People can also detect resemblances in families other than their own. A new study shows that their success in doing so is the ...


Scientist studies brain activity, facial recognition as a step in autism research

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A video shows an actor telling the viewer happily, “clouds are in the sky.” But his facial expression is more akin to someone who’s about to spout off insults. Another video has an actress pleasantly relating ...


Study shows 3-month-olds are sensitive to emotional cues referring to objects in the world

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created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered that three-month-old infants are sensitive to emotional signals that refer to objects in the world. It was once thought that young infants could only process social signals that were directed at ...


Face off: Misunderstood expressions facilitate adolescent aggression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 misint ...


Frogs reveal clues about the effects of alcohol during development

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) cause malformations in babies, including facial defects, short stature, and mental and behavioral abnormalities. The African frog, Xenopus, is a valuable ...


The untrained eye: Confusing sexual interest with friendliness

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 01, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2

New research from Indiana University and Yale suggests that college-age men confuse friendly non-verbal cues with cues for sexual interest because the men have a less discerning eye than women -- but their female peers aren't ...


Brazilians judge facial beauty differently than North Americans

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Standard ideals of facial beauty and harmony may differ depending on geographic location, with a specific difference between North American beauty ideals and those of Brazilians.


Let's get non-verbal, electronically

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. It is fascinating work, and the real-world applications ...


Improving security with face recognition technology

Improving security with face recognition technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. ...



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