Human brain 'can't detect fearful faces in crowds'
Sharmila Chakravorty , Bombay: Jun 27 2008
Made Popular Jun 27 2008
Understanding and interpreting facial expressions like anger, fear, happiness or sadness are evolutionary skills people have developed in order to survive. But, a new study has revealed that facial expressions showing fear or anger are harder for the...
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HemRaj Singh
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HemRaj Singh hemrajsingh.wordpres.. Jun 27 2008
New Delhi, India
Of course, that’s because human beings are just too self-centered to care about how others feel, much less detect.
No wonder we are such a pathetic lot. :)
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Sharmila Chakravorty
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Sharmila Chakravorty sweety-pie-rims.blog.. Jun 27 2008
Bombay, India
Yeah reallly... :-P
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Graeme emeraldsandash.blogs.. Jun 28 2008
Canberra, Australia
I suspect that the emphasis of this kind of research would be towards the evolutionary principles of facial recognition. Why would human beings be more adept at recognising some emotions over others ? Why recognise emotions at all ? In terms of the organisational capacity of the cerebral cortex or whatever part of the brain does this task of facial recognition and it’s refinements - what is the evolutionary advantage to being able to determine the mood that another person is in ? Quite probably, this is fairly self-evident...
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