Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Facial expressions may appear spontaneous, but new research shows the brain begins preparing them long before the face ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

How did the bodies of animals, including ours, become such fine-tuned movement machines? This paper cuts directly into critical debates about how the ancient spinal cord and the relatively new human ...