Science news articles about 'emotional cues'

  • Study shows 3-month-olds are sensitive to emotional cues referring to objects in the world

    ... brain activity showed that processing of new objects varied depending on the emotional signals that adults had used as referential social cues. First author, Stefanie Hoehl, explains, "At three ...
  • Robot playmates monitor emotional state of children with ASD

    ... in treating ASD, Stone says: "Children with autism are not necessarily giving the kind of emotional cues that we know how to read. They are not necessarily good reporters of their inner feelings. If ...
  • Musicians have biological advantage in identifying emotion in sound

    Looking for a mate who in everyday conversation can pick up even your most subtle emotional cues? Find a musician, Northwestern University researchers suggest. In a study in the latest issue of ...
  • Alcoholics misread facial cues

    ... health, memory -- one of its most heartbreaking tolls is on relationships. Alcoholics, researchers have long known, have a tendency to misread emotional cues, sometimes taking offense when none was...
  • This is your brain on politics

    ... saw the positive ads in general — and, in particular, the ones who saw positive ads with emotional cues — reported being more interested in the campaign than those who saw the negative ads. It turns ...
  • Oh, what a feeling!

    ... , anxiety, disgust and surprise. Earlier research had suggested that the accurate perception of emotional cues requires a variety of cognitive skills involving several brain regions and pathways, ...
  • I feel your pain: Neural mechanisms of empathy

    ... . Dr. Danziger and colleagues had previously shown that CIP patients underestimated the pain of others when emotional cues were lacking and, in contrast with control subjects, the ability to fully ...
  • Decoding funny faces to detect disease

    ... Processes and Better Treatments "Recognizing facial emotions is a very early process, so young ... measuring their brain connectivity while detecting emotional cues," Prof. Hendler explains. An objective ...
  • Columbia researchers identify early brain marker for familial form of depression

    ... these cognitive problems that affect a person's attention and their ability to ­­interpret social and emotional cues – it would suggest that there may be potential treatments or novel uses of already ...

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