An NBC2 Florida (WBBH) news program recently aired a segment about the possibility of Botox being used to help treat depression. Dr. Eric Finzi, a board certified dermasurgeon, began studying the effects of Botox injections on women with major depressive disorder in 2006. He injected Botox into the frowning muscles (located between the eyebrows) of…
Read MoreEmotion Recognition Technology on the iPhone?
iPhone users: Blue Finger, Inc., a South Korean development company, has released a new iPhone app that reads facial expressions from photos (as well as in real time, if you purchase the full version.) The app scans the faces and gives you one of 12 answers: happiness, excitement, anger, joy, worry, loneliness, tiredness, sadness, “poker-face,”…
Read More“Crocodile Tears” Don’t Fool Us
Do you think its easy to fake remorse? New research out of the Centre for the Advancement of Psychology and Law at University of British Columbia and Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, suggests that it may not be as easy as you’d think. For the first time, researchers Leanne ten Brinke , Sarah MacDonald,…
Read MoreYour Questions Answered by Dr. Matsumoto Part 3!
Thank to you everyone for your overwhelming response to the “Submit your questions to Dr. Matsumoto” post a month ago. Here are a few questions and answers by Dr. Matsumoto himself! Find out more about Dr. Matsumoto and his research at his website Chris C: Q: How many different facial emotions have been identified, including…
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