Scientists pinpoint where in the brain we process facial expressions

Recognizing facial expressions is something that we do naturally, without any thought. However, whenever we smile or frown, or express any number of emotions using our faces, we move a large number of muscles in a complex manner. While we’re not conscious of it, when you’re looking at someone making a facial expression, there’s a whole part of our brains that deals with decoding the information conveyed by those muscles. Now, researchers at the Ohio State University have worked to pinpoint exactly where in the brain that processing occurs.

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They seem to be using less participants these days.

>have worked to pinpoint exactly where in the brain that processing occurs.

Mr Darwin did a lot of work re expressions of emotions, wrote something about it too.

But i’m not convinced, I think it’s all learned from scratch, and these hints of minds having some physical, or functional modularity, it’s all nonsense.

This disturbing idea that minds have structure, that they are formed with some structure and you’re born with it, and worse there’re computational theories of minds now.

And on a serious note, it further occured to me recently how damaging the nurture/nature debate probably was(back a way now), not only was it a distorting dichotomy that distracted from the nature of the human beast being receptive to culture/social environment, the nurture part is too a profoundly important aspect of the nature of the beast.

Humans nurture all sorts.

transition said:

>have worked to pinpoint exactly where in the brain that processing occurs.

Mr Darwin did a lot of work re expressions of emotions, wrote something about it too.

But i’m not convinced, I think it’s all learned from scratch, and these hints of minds having some physical, or functional modularity, it’s all nonsense.

This disturbing idea that minds have structure, that they are formed with some structure and you’re born with it, and worse there’re computational theories of minds now.

And on a serious note, it further occured to me recently how damaging the nurture/nature debate probably was(back a way now), not only was it a distorting dichotomy that distracted from the nature of the human beast being receptive to culture/social environment, the nurture part is too a profoundly important aspect of the nature of the beast.

Humans nurture all sorts.

I thought you meant it for a second there :)

transition said:

>have worked to pinpoint exactly where in the brain that processing occurs.

Mr Darwin did a lot of work re expressions of emotions, wrote something about it too.

But i’m not convinced, I think it’s all learned from scratch, and these hints of minds having some physical, or functional modularity, it’s all nonsense.

This disturbing idea that minds have structure, that they are formed with some structure and you’re born with it, and worse there’re computational theories of minds now.

And on a serious note, it further occured to me recently how damaging the nurture/nature debate probably was(back a way now), not only was it a distorting dichotomy that distracted from the nature of the human beast being receptive to culture/social environment, the nurture part is too a profoundly important aspect of the nature of the beast.

Humans nurture all sorts.

Supposedly as in I am not sure if its conjecture or has actually been scientifically tested is that if you don’t smile at a baby in the first year of its life it will never learn how to smile.