Head to toe, in the head
Sometime about 250,000 y ago, primates started talking to each other (1). Before that time facial expressions and body language were the main modes of communication among primates. Even today in the presence of our sophisticated language system, face and body gestures play a major role in human comm...
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| author | Afraz, Arash |
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| description | Sometime about 250,000 y ago, primates started talking to each other (1). Before that time facial expressions and body language were the main modes of communication among primates. Even today in the presence of our sophisticated language system, face and body gestures play a major role in human communication. If someone tells you that she is not bored with a conversation but her half-open eyelids, raised eyebrows, dropped shoulders, and the way she puts her hand under her chin “tell” you the opposite, you would probably trust the ancient signal more than the modern sounds that we call words. In a recent PNAS article, Fisher and Freiwald (2) might have unveiled where in the brain such signals are encoded. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1105642022-09-29T18:28:10Z Head to toe, in the head Afraz, Arash McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Afraz, Arash Sometime about 250,000 y ago, primates started talking to each other (1). Before that time facial expressions and body language were the main modes of communication among primates. Even today in the presence of our sophisticated language system, face and body gestures play a major role in human communication. If someone tells you that she is not bored with a conversation but her half-open eyelids, raised eyebrows, dropped shoulders, and the way she puts her hand under her chin “tell” you the opposite, you would probably trust the ancient signal more than the modern sounds that we call words. In a recent PNAS article, Fisher and Freiwald (2) might have unveiled where in the brain such signals are encoded. 2017-07-07T20:29:55Z 2017-07-07T20:29:55Z 2015-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0027-8424 1091-6490 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110564 Afraz, Arash. “Head to Toe, in the Head.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112.49 (2015): 15004–15005. © 2017 National Academy of Sciences en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519761112 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) PNAS |
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