As technology continues to advance at such a fast pace, we are inundated with creative ways to see and understand the world and people around us. NewScientist has just released information on MIT’s Media Lab’s newest project – emotion recognition glasses. No doubt this would be beneficial for many social situations and would probably avoid…
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Being an effective and believable liar can be beneficial in a plethora of ways. So, if you are not a natural then how can you learn to be a more effective liar especially in this day and age where technology is trying to thwart our every effort in duplicity? Look no further. Scientific American has…
Read MoreBaby Smarts
New research has shown that babies brains are just as specialized as adult brains in respect to emotion recognition. According to EurekAlert, this study (entitled Early Specialization for Voice and Emotion Processing in the Infant Brain and published in Current Biology) purports that three-to-seven month infants have greater activation in the temporal lobe of the…
Read MoreEmpathy Emptiness
Do you have emotional empathy for other people? This seems like a no-brainer but research is now suggesting that people who have had severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) have a loss of emotional empathy , which is the ability to recognize and understand the emotions of other people. Researchers from the University of New South…
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