An analysis of brain scans from 572 people reveals that activity in brain regions linked to reward and social processing can predict how effective messages will be. Christin Scholz, Hang-Yee Chan, ...
Facial expressions arise from brain networks that encode slow, context-rich meaning and fast muscle control on different time scales, keeping smiles and threats socially precise.
Neuroscientists are getting closer to the moment when a frozen snapshot of brain activity can be replayed like a paused voicemail, revealing words that were never spoken aloud. By halting neural ...