Transmission of facial expressions of emotion co-evolved with their efficient decoding in the brain: behavioral and brain evidence.
Competent social organisms will read the social signals of their peers. In primates, the face has evolved to transmit the organism's internal emotional state. Adaptive action suggests that the brain of the receiver has co-evolved to efficiently decode expression signals. Here, we review and int...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-05-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2680487?pdf=render |