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…
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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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Who’s the best at hiding their emotions? Well, take a look at the video below, which delineates the most popular society at masking their emotions. It is not Brits as one might suggest. Dr. David Matsumoto, microexpression expert, comments on why this might be so prevalent in Japanese society. He suggests that because it is…
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Market Watch has just released information about a new digital eye tracking marketing product developed by AOL and IPG Media Lab . The companies announced the results of a new study on the effectiveness and earned attention on AOL’s project units aka IAB “Portrait Units” versus traditional display advertising at the Cannes Lions International Advertising…
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