Tag Archive for 'Emotion'

Domestic horses (Equus caballus). Image credit: Mikel Ortega / Richard Bartz / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Researchers: Horses Can Read Human Emotions

Feb 10, 2016 by News Staff

According to a group of researchers at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, domestic horses (Equus caballus) are able to distinguish between positive...

Examples of stimuli used in the study: faces (human happy versus angry, dog playful versus aggressive) and their correspondent vocalizations. Image credit: Natalia Albuquerque et al.

New Study Shows Dogs Can Recognize Dog, Human Emotions

Jan 13, 2016 by Natali Anderson

Dogs can recognize emotions in both dogs and humans by combining information from different senses, according to a study published today in the journal...

Drosophila melanogaster. Image credit: Botaurus.

Fruit Flies Experience Emotions Too

May 15, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows that the response of fruit flies (Drosophila sp.) to visual threats includes many essential...

On each experimental trial, the Generative Face Grammar platform randomly selected from a total of 41 a subset of action units and values specifying their temporal parameters, represented as color-coded curves. The dynamic action units were then combined to produce a 3D facial animation, illustrated here with four snapshots and corresponding color-coded temporal parameter curves. Naive observers categorized the random facial animation according to six emotions plus don’t know if the movements correlated with their subjective perceptual expectations of that emotion - here, fear. Each observer categorized a total of 2,400 random facial animations displayed on same-race faces of both sexes. Image credit: adapted from Rachael E. Jack et al, 2014.

Only Four Basic Emotions Exist, Researchers Say

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

According to scientists from the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, there are only four basic emotions that we all experience. On...