L.A. Noire, scheduled to be released May 17, 2011, is a detective thriller video game set against the backdrop of Los Angeles in the post-war years of the late 1940s. According to WorthPlaying .com this interactive realistic detective thriller, with MotionScan technology that incorporates microexpressions on its characters, is now set to become a book…
Read MoreHuman’s Ancestors are Fish?
Are humans closely related to fish? Well according to BBC News, new scans of human embryos suggest that this is the case. The early human embryo looks very similar to the embryo of any other mammal all of which have evolved from fish. They outline some of the similarities between the two species: The eyes…
Read MoreStudying Facial Expressions in High School
Colby Howell and Varun Ramesh, two Hamilton High school students, won paid trips to Los Angeles to compete for $4 million in prizes and scholorships at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair , for their scientific research projects. These students were among the grand prize winners last week in the Arizona Science and Engineering…
Read MoreThe Efficacy of Training to Recognize Microexpression of Emotion
A new study performed by Dr. David Matsumoto and Dr. Hyi Sung Hwang demonstrated that the ability to read microexpressions, facial expressions of emotion that can appear on the face as fast as 1/2 second, can be trained. They present two studies that prove this claim as well as evidence for the retention of the…
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